Prevalence of CCR5Δ32 among blood samples of more than 400 healthy and HIV-1-infected people was investigated in Iran. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) following DNA extraction was used. Desired frequency was analyzed by Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium (HWE) analysis and SPSS 16.0 software to harvest the results. The prevalence of CCRΔ32 heterozygote genotype was 3% in healthy people and 0.7% in HIV-...

OBJECTIVE Experiencing ‎pleasant events during daily life ‎has a significant positive role in ‎the personal mental health and ‎acts as a keystone for "behavioral ‎activation" (BA) interventions. ‎There are serious differences in ‎the pleasant event schedules in ‎different cultures and countries. ‎We aimed to develop a Persian ‎checklist of pleasant events ‎‎(PCPE) to provide and validate a ‎cul...

Each year, 24-36% of malaria cases in Beluchestan (area) occur among Afghani refugees. Knowledge about malaria transmission and protection are important for these refugees to enable local Health Services to manage malaria control in the area. Our objective was to explore and investigate knowledge, attitude and practices of Afghan refugees and Iranian residents with respect to malaria transmissi...

In the early Iron Age, brave Savromat-Sarmatian tribes, dexterous horsemen, well-aimed archers were known in history as «nomadic tribes of horsemen». they occupied a special place Eurasia. They led nomadic lifestyle and formed kind culture. The historical evidence suggests that these lived on large territory east from southern Ural Mountains, west to Danube River. Due migration west, written so...

This article reviewed the influence of pre-Islamic religions such as Mithraism and Zoroastrianism on decorative elements ancient Persian rugs. The then evaluated effect Islamic religion was examined through extant evidence from pre–Islamic empire artefacts publications in carpet history, iconography religious studies. Using spiritual motifs some rugs results important position Iranians’ lives. ...

Tobacco use has serious harmful effects on nearly every system in the body and by 2030-accounting for approximately 8 million deaths per year-it is expected to be the single biggest cause of death worldwide (World Health Organization, 2009) and especially in developing countries (Philip et al., 2013). In Iran, there are an estimated 10 million smokers and the death rate for smoking is now estim...

Objective(s):From the ancient era, emergence of Agriculture in the connecting region of Mesopotamia and the Iranian plateau at the foothills of the Zagros Mountains, made Iranian gene pool as an important source of populating the region. It has differentiated the population spread and different language groups. In order to trace the maternal genetic affinity between Iranians and other populatio...

Due to its pivotal geographical location and proximity to transcontinental migratory routes, Iran has played a key role in subsequent migrations, both prehistoric and historic, between Africa, Asia and Europe. To shed light on the genetic structure of the Iranian population as well as on the expansion patterns and population movements which affected this region, the complete mitochondrial genom...

objective(s):from the ancient era, emergence of agriculture in the connecting region of mesopotamia and the iranian plateau at the foothills of the zagros mountains, made iranian gene pool as an important source of populating the region. it has differentiated the population spread and different language groups. in order to trace the maternal genetic affinity between iranians and other populatio...