the recognition of seasonal patterns in infectious disease occurrence dates back at least as far as the hippocratic era, but the mechanisms underlying these fluctuations remain poorly understood. many classes of mechanistic hypotheses have been proposed to explain seasonality of various directly transmitted diseases, including at least the following; human activity, seasonal variability in huma...

malaysia is affected by moderate environmental disasters but seldom affected by severe disaster. cameron highland mud floods 2013, hulu langat landslide 2011, tsunami 2004 and highland tower 1993 are some of environmental disaster in malaysia. some of these disasters carry heavy price tags as property and lives are damaged beyond full compensation and repair and health effects as well. this pap...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 one of the prominent types of connective tissue cells is fibroblast that synthesizes and maintains the extracellular matrix of many animal tissues. previous studies illustrated that calprotectin protein has different cytotoxicity effects on fibroblast cells. calprotectin is abundant in the neutrophil cytosol; it has growth...

the purpose of this study was to examine the evolution of antimicrobial activity of flower extract of hibiscus sabdariffal against antibiotic-resistant escherichia coli and staphylococcus aureus that isolates from the urinary tract infection by microtiterplate method. all 42 strains 30 e.coli and 12 s. aureus isolated from urine culture of hospitalized patients in zabol ( zabol, south-eastern i...

the aim of this study was to evaluate the antimicrobial activities of trachyspermum ammi, essential oil against different kinds of microorganisms by microtiter plate method. all 36 isolates of (12 klebsiella pneumoniae, 12 e.coli and 12 staphylococcus aureus) isolated from urine culture of hospitalized patients (amir al-momenin hospital, zabol, south-eastern iran) suffered from urinary tract in...

cancer is one of the main causes of mortality in the world which appears by the effect of enviromental physico-chemical mutagen and carcinogen agents. the identification of new cytotoxic drugs with low side effects on immune system has developed as important area in new studies of immunopharmacology. thymoquinone (tq), derived from the medicinal spice nigella sativa (also called black cumin) ex...