Objective(s): In an attempt to discover new natural active extracts against malaria parasites, the present study evaluated the antiplasmodial properties of selected plants based on Iranian traditional medicine. Materials and Methods: Ten plant species found in Iran were selected and collected based on the available literature about the Iranian traditional medicine. The methanolic extracts of th...

A formalism is presented that is intended to combine basic properties of both state-based and action-based verification. In state-based verification the behaviour of the system is described in terms of the properties of its states, whereas action-based methods concentrate on transitions between states. A typical state-based approach consists of representing requirements as temporal logic formul...

background: the development of resistance to antimicrobial agents is a major problem in chemotherapy. finding agents which potentiate antimicrobial activity could be favorable. there are some reports that methylxanthines changed the inhibitory effect of antibacterial agents. thus, possible synergistic effect of methylxanthines, aminophylline and caffeine on some antibiotics, carbenicillin, ceft...

introduction: epilepsy is one of the most common neurological disorders. in spite of the fact that a great development has been made regarding therapy against epilepsy, little is known, however, about the precise mechanism of the epilepsy. pentylenetetrazol (ptz) is one of the most often used epileptogenic agents. hence the main purpose of the present work was to determine the effect of ptz as ...