The Hajar Mountains of south-eastern Arabia form an isolated massif surrounded by the sea to the east and by a large desert to the west. As a result of their old geological origin, geographical isolation, complex topography and local climate, these mountains provide an important refuge for endemic and relict species of plants and animals. With 19 species restricted to the Hajar Mountains, repti...

BACKGROUND The Hajar Mountains of Oman and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is the highest mountain range in Eastern Arabia. As a result of their old geological origin, geographical isolation, complex topography and local climate, these mountains provide an important refuge for endemic and relict species of plants and animals with strong Indo-Iranian affinities. Among vertebrates, the rock climbi...

Materials and Methods: This was a prospective, cohort study in Hajar Hospital of Shahrekord, southwest Iran from March, 2013 to June, 2014 (within 15 months). Thirty women achieving pregnancy with intrauterine insemination and in vitro fertilization were compared with 60 women getting pregnant naturally. Between the days 59 and 83 after insemination, fetal CRL was examined by ultrasound. Then, ...

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The present study was conducted to assess antibody response against Newcastle disease (ND) vaccination of one hundred and sixty female chicks represented equally two local Saudi chicken lines Hajar 1 and Hajar 2, In addition to crossbreed HiH1, and HiH2 lines during the rearing period from four to 16 wk of age. Body weight (BW), hemoglobin concentration (Hb) and hematocrit percent (Ht) were eva...

BACKGROUND Urinary Tract Infections (UTI), and their complications, cause serious health problems, which affect millions of people every year. Infections of the urinary tract are the second most common type of infection in the body and approximately 20% of women are especially prone to UTIs for reasons not yet well understood. Urinary Tract Infections in men are not as common as in women yet ca...

Galway, Ireland Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells Adhere and Proliferate onto Films of Poly(ε-caprolactone) with Hydroxylic Functional Groups Hajar Seyednejad, Tina Vermonden, Natalja E. Fedorovich, Mies J. van Steenbergen, Wouter J. A. Dhert, Cornelus F. van Nostrum, Wim E. Hennink Corresponding author: [email protected] Department of Pharmaceutics, Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences (UI...