purpose :   the aim of this study was to examine the influence of selected exercises on motor development in elementary school third grade girl students in ahwaz city, iran . methods :   the present study was semi-experimental, performed as field and using experimental and control groups. the statistical population included all third grade girl students of elementary schools of ahvaz city (10,5...

trichomonas vaginalis infection is a sexually transmitted infection causing vaginitis and acute inflammatory disease of the genital mucosa. although metronidazole resistance in t. vaginalis is well documented, the only drug approved for the treatment of trichomoniasis in some countries is metronidazole. genus allium plants including garlic; shallot and onion have had an important medicinal role...

background: in recent years, plants natural products have gained considerable attention as natural preservers for use in different industries. due to their free radical scavenging activities, phenolic compounds can prevent a wide range of diseases such as cancers and cardiovascular and neurodegenerative diseases. for a long time, different ferulago species have been in use as medicinal plants w...

background: measurement of gross , gross activities, and cosmogenic beryllium-7 (7be) concentrations were made both daily and weekly during the years 2001- 2004 from samples of atmospheric aerosols filtered from the air at tehran nuclear research center (35 41' n) and zahedan (28 29' n). materials and methods: weekly aerosol samples were collected with the high-volume air samplers on ...

the aim of this study was to characterize albumin fractions of four different wheat varieties grown in a local climatic context, as well as to find the relationship between the particular albumin fractions and enzyme activity of the tested wheat flours and dough rheological properties. the determined content of albumin fractions ranged from 2.64 to 17.50% of total proteins. more than 50% of the...

the in vitro antioxidant and antimicrobial activities of the essential oil and methanolic extract of achillea sieheana staf. (asteraceae) were investigated in this study. the chemical composition of the essential oil isolated by hydro-distillation from the aerial parts of a. sieheana was analyzed by gc–ms. camphor (43.36%), artemisia ketone (25.95%), 1.8-cineole (6.29%) and camphene (4.77%) wer...

BACKGROUND Microbial translocation (MT) is the process by which microbes or microbial products translocate from the intestine to the systemic circulation. MT is a common cause of systemic immune activation in HIV infection and is associated with reduced frequencies of CD4(+) T cells; no data exist, however, on the role of MT in intestinal helminth infections. METHODS We measured the plasma le...

BACKGROUND Antenatal care (ANC) is a key strategy to decreasing maternal mortality in low-resource settings. ANC clinics provide resources to improve nutrition and health knowledge and promote preventive health practices. We sought to compare the knowledge, attitude and practices (KAP) among women seeking and not-seeking ANC in rural Kenya. METHODS Data from a community-based cross-sectional ...