trichophyton rubrum (t. rubrum) is an anthropophilic dermatophyte that is distributed worldwide and causes common cutaneous disease such as mycosis. although several properties of this fungus have been investigated so far, however a few studies were carried out in the field of molecular biology of this fungus. in the present study we tried to identify its molecular characterization of the goano...

background nucleic acid based detection of mycobacterium tuberculosis has the potential to improve the analysis of the tuberculosis epidemiology and patient care by increasing the specificity and sensitivity of diagnosis. patients and methods fifty suspected cases were screened for m. tuberculosis by using a new primer sequence and comparing its results with the primer (is6110) most widely used...

cytotoxicity evaluation of daphne mucronata (thymelaeaceae) extract and one of its active purified components, using seven different cancerous cell lines, revealed the strong antiproliferative activity of the plant. using flow cytometry technique, it was found that treatment of the most responsive cells (k562) with the plant extract or the active component inhibited the progression of cells thr...

conclusions consequently, small diameter scnt interaction with nucleic acid bases is noncovalent. also, the results revealed that small diameter scnt interaction especially scnt (4, 4) with nucleic acid bases can be useful in practical application area of biomedical fields such detection and drug delivery. objectives hence, the quantum mechanics (qm) method based on ab initio was used for this ...

introduction: p. aeruginosa is an important multi-drug resistant (mdr) opportunistic pathogen in hospital-acquired infections. several methods based on dna analysis have been used for investigating genetic diversity of p. aeruginosa isolates. among them, rep‑pcr typing has been introduced as a rapid, low cost method with high discriminatory power. the aims of this study were to investigate geno...

conclusions nucleic acid amplification tests (naats) are very appropriate in detection of infected individuals. detection techniques such as naats are independent of bacterial viability, and have a potential to limit false negative samples, therefore, in our country, the application of different laboratory diagnosis methods including naats with culture as gold standard for determination antimic...

background: we examined a molecular method with a single-pcr for amplification of a part of cp5 gene enabling us to differen­tiate the pathogenic species, entamoeba histolytica , from the non-pathogenic species, e. dispar . methods: we developed a single pcr method for this purpose.  after investigation of genbank, primer pairs were de­signed from highly conserved regions of cysteine proteinase...

Development of potent new anti-Shigella agents for rapid and specific detection and treatment is of great importance. Aptamers, nucleic acid oligomers capable of specific binding to a wide range of non-nucleic acid targets, may be of value for this purpose. In the present study, we used a Systematic Evolution of Ligands by Exponential enrichment (SELEX) process to select DNA aptamers that b...

  Background & Objectives: Antisense peptide nucleic acids (PNA) that target growth essential genes show potent bactericidal properties without cell lysis. We considered the possibility that whether PNA treatment influence the bacteria total nucleic acids content and apply approach to develop a new delivery system to Dendritic cells (DCs). DCs are the most potent antigen presenting cells in th...