the impact of the international sanctions on the central bank of iran in 2013 and also accessibility of medicines in this country have received a lot of media coverage. in this study we used the data collected from a group of pharmacies all located in tehran to assess the potential effects of the banking sanctions on access to asthma medicines. data were collected from forty community pharmacie...

BACKGROUND Puerarin is an effective ingredient isolated from Radix Puerariae, a leguminous plant. In China, a large number of early studies suggest that puerarin may be used in the treatment of coronary heart disease. In recent years, puerarin injection has been widely used to treat coronary heart disease and angina pectoris. OBJECTIVE To systematically evaluate the clinical efficacy and safe...

Background: It has been shown that zinc has an effect on physiological responses in animals and birds. On the other hand, dietary phytase in poultry results in increased availability of zinc. OBJECTIVES: This study was conducted to investigate the effects of zinc oxide (ZnO) and Escherichia coli-derived 6-phytase supplemented diets on the plasma metabolites and enzyme activities of broiler bree...

Medicines and medical devices containing animal-derived ingredients are frequently used on patients without their informed consent, despite a significant proportion of wanting to know if an product is going be in care. Here, I outline three arguments for why this practice wrong. First, argue that using products consent undermines respect autonomy. Second, it risks causing nontrivial psychologic...

Background: Persian oak (Quercus castaneifolia C.A.Mey) belongs to the Fagaceae family. This plant is commonly used in Iranian traditional medicine treat inflammatory and gastric ulcers. Objectives: study aimed assess efficacy of fruit aqueous hull extract on wound healing rats. Methods: Thirty-five male Wistar rats were randomly divided into five groups, then two full-thickness wounds 10 mm di...

Plants are used an excellent source of drugs, and some of the currently available drugs were derived from the plant sources. In the developing countries, plant and plant-derived products still play an important role in the medical health care system. Some of the modern medicine i.e. aspirin, anti-malarial, anti-cancer and digitalis have derived from the plant source. Plants and phytochemical ha...

Background: Plasminogen is one of the compounds derived from human plasma. Activation of plasminogen produces plasmin. Plasmin is able to lyse fibrinogen, fibrin, and some other human plasma proteins. The aim of the present work was to study the separation of human plasminogen by affinity chromatography using gel lysine Sepharose. Materials and Methods: Normal human plasma was used as the...