background: iodine deficiency elimination program has begun since two decades ago in iran. this study was performed to evaluate the adequacy of iodine supplementation after 17 years of national salt iodization in the kermanshah province. methods: in this cross-sectional study 1200 schoolchildren aged 8 to10 year-old from kermanshah province were randomly selected and evaluated in 2007. goiter p...

Background: Foods have been many changes from production to tables and continuous control is necessary to maintain food safety and supply foods with good quality. The aim of this study was to evaluate the quality of some foods with high consumption in Zanjan city during the 5 years from 2009 to 2013. Methods: In a case-control descriptive study with an annually control program during 5 years f...

Dopamine in urine is derived substantially from renal uptake and decarboxylation of 3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine (dopa), and increases in excretion of dopa normally parallel increases in excretion of dopamine during salt loading. Since patients with salt-sensitive hypertension may have decreased urinary excretion of dopamine during dietary salt loading, the present study was designed to evaluate ...

Understanding salt stress signaling is key to producing salt-tolerant crops. The small ubiquitin-like modifier (SUMO) is a crucial regulator of signaling proteins in eukaryotes. Attachment of SUMO onto substrates is reversible, and SUMO proteases, which specifically cleave the SUMO-substrate linkages, play a vital regulatory role during SUMOylation. We have identified two SUMO proteases, OVERLY...

in this paper an intelligent method through general regression neural networks (grnn) is presented to estimate the depth of salt domes from gravity data. neural networks are as a good tool for automatic interpretation of geophysical data especially for depth estimation of gravity anomalies. the gravity signal is a nonlinear function of depth and density and the geometrical parameters of the bur...

pistachios are salt tolerant crops, but the degree of salt tolerance of pistachio cultivars grown in northern parts of yazd province, iran, is not adequately known. in order to evaluate the effect of saline water on the growth and chemical composition of pistachio seedlings, a glasshouse experiment was conducted on five cultivars of pistachio namely, hajabdolahi, hajagha-ali, jalilaghaii, paran...