The pistachio (Pistacia.vera) belongs to the Anacardiaceae family. Plants of this family are trees or shrubs (broadleaf) and in total comprising 75 genera and 600 species. This species is found in arid and semi-arid regions, located in the northeast of Iran. Many algorithms have been investigated for tree delineation and identification, in order to assist human operators in the information expl...

Aflatoxins, carcinogenic toxins produced by Aspergillus fungi, contaminate maize, peanuts, and tree nuts in many regions of the world. Pistachios are the main source of human dietary aflatoxins from tree nuts worldwide. Over 120 countries have regulations for maximum allowable aflatoxin levels in food commodities. We developed social network models to analyze the association between nations' af...

OBJECTIVES Stillbirth is an undesirable outcome of pregnancy. In light of the increasing use of pesticides and growing concerns about the possible health effects of agricultural pesticides, we investigated the effect of exposure to pistachio pesticides on stillbirth in pregnant mothers. METHODS This case-control study was conducted in Rafsanjan, Iran from 2011 to 2012. A total of 125 females ...

Plants are often subjected to several environmental stresses throughout their life cycle. Adaptation of plants to saline conditions may be due to some salt-related changes in the pattern of gene(s) expression. The physiological role of stress induced proteins is not yet clearly understood. However, it is believed that these proteins allow plants to produce biochemical and structural adjustments...

This experiment was conducted to determine the blood chemistry and carcass characteristics of broilers fed malted sorghum sprouts (MSP) or wheat offal (W/O)-based diets supplemented with yeast culture enzyme. A total two hundred forty 28-day old, Marshal Broiler chickens used for were randomly allotted 8 dietary treatment groups 30 birds each. Each group replicated thrice 10 per replicate. Data...

Studies on antibody formation "in vitro" have supplied information concerning the site of antibody production (1-5), the rates of antibody synthesis per unit weight of tissue (6-7) and the percentage of active cells in lymphoid tissue during the primary and secondary antibody response (8-9). In vitro experiments have also been used in attempts to elucidate the mechanism of induction of antibody...

ORIGIN AND HISTORY The pistachio is native to western Asia and Asia Minor, where it is still found growing wild in numerous hot, dry locations in Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, Iran, Iraq, India, Southern Europe and the desert countries of Asia and Africa. It was introduced to Europe at the beginning of the Christian era. The first pistachio introductions to the United States were by the USDA plant...

It has been shown (Holmes, Stanier, Semambo and Jones, 1951) that the concentration of y-globulin in the serum of apparently healthy adult Africans is considerably higher than that of Europeans. It is also known (Longsworth, Curtis and Pembroke, 1945) that, in white infants, the level of y-globulin of the serum of umbilical cord blood is higher than that of the maternal blood taken on the day o...

Serum protein electrophoresis (SPE) demonstrates a monoclonal protein as an M spike in the majority of patients with monoclonal gammopathies. However, in patients with an apparently normal SPE pattern or hypogammaglobulinemia, immunofixation electrophoresis (IFE) can reveal an M protein. We undertook this study to determine the yield of reflex IFE testing in patients with hypogammaglobulinemia ...

One of us (LWS) bad occasion to treat a young white man with gamma globulin for prophylaxis after exposure to infectious hepatitis. He was given two injections, 10 cc. each, of human Poliomyelitis Immune Globulin, one week apart. It was observed that shortly after the second injection, his severe pustular and indurated acne improved considerably. This observation led to the present study, of wh...