Microfilariae obtained from in vitro culture of adult Dirofilaria immitis were inoculated into naive dogs and used to test the in vivo efficacy of the antimicrofilarial drug Dizan. Injection of 33 million microfilariae into a 3-month-old male beagle pup over a 5-day period resulted in a microfilaremia that peaked at 863 microfilariae per ml on day 30. Treatment with Dizan resulted in a rapid cl...

Ensuring proper living conditions for an ever growing number of elderly people is a significative challenge for many countries. The difficulty and cost of hiring and training specialized personnel has fostered research in assistive robotics as a viable alternative. In this context, an ideally suited and very relevant application is to transport people with reduced mobility. This may involve eit...

nowadays, population growth and on the other hand resources limitations astonish authorities. population changes cause variation in economic activities and land use changes. as a whole, overusing, improper land use and human disturbances over natural resources make environmental imbalances worse. in recent decades, we have seen land use changes in taleghan basin. land use changes were produced ...