hottentotta is one of the most widely distributed genera of the family buthidae, with species present throughout africa, the arabian peninsula, and in asia to pakistan and india. recently, kovarik (2007) revised genus of hottentotta in the world and reported 29 different species-group name in the genus of hottentotta. hottentotta is one of the six medical important scorpions of iran that distri...

Two new tardigrade species from a moss sample collected in Canada, one representing Macrobiotus hufelandi complex and the second belonging to genus Bryodelphax, are described. Integrative analysis was undertaken based on morphological morphometric data (using both light scanning electron microscopy (SEM)) combined with multilocus molecular (nuclear sequences, i.e., 18S rRNA, 28S rRNA ITS-2 as w...

Glucocorticoids and immunosuppressive drugs are commonly used to treat inflammatory disorders, such as inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), and despite a few improvements, the remission of IBD is still difficult to maintain. Due to their immunomodulatory properties, mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) have emerged as regulators of the immune response, and their viability and activation of their migrator...

The effect of T1 signal on FSL voxel-based morphometry modulated GM density and FreeSurfer cortical thickness is explored. The techniques rely on different analyses, but both are commonly used to detect spatial changes in GM. Standard pipelines show FSL voxel-based morphometry is sensitive to T1 signal alterations within a physiologic range, and results can appear discordant between FSL voxel-b...

In progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy, JC virus-infected oligodendroglia display 2 distinct patterns of intranuclear viral inclusions: full inclusions in which progeny virions are present throughout enlarged nuclei and dot-shaped inclusions in which virions are clustered in subnuclear domains termed "promyelocytic leukemia nuclear bodies" (PML-NBs). Promyelocytic leukemia nuclear bodies...

Categorizing 'deficit schizophrenia' (DS) as distinct from 'non-deficit' schizophrenia (NDS) may help reduce heterogeneity within schizophrenia. However, it is unknown if DS has a discrete white matter signature. Here we used MRI to compare white matter volume (voxel-based morphometry) and microstructural integrity (fractional anisotropy, FA) in first-episode treatment-naïve patients with DS an...

Purpose: Computerized histomorphometric analyses have been widely used as a diagnostic tool for the differential diagnosis of various tumors including breast carcinoma, well grading malignant and evaluation prognosis therapeutic response. The aim present study is to determine association between nuclear morphometric variables clinicopathologic prognostic parameters ER, PR, Cerb-B2 expressions i...

reports indicate that one of the causes of harmful to the genital system, especially the testes stress. stress could be created secondarily after some pathological conditions such as neurological diseases or environmental factors. one of the causes of stress could be scary voices, such as cat voice for mice. in this study we aimed to investigate the testes parameters in the animals that were ex...

backgrounds: genus trichostrongylus (nematoda: trichostrongylidae) is one of the most impor­tant zoonotic nematodes with wide geographic distribution in the world. the purpose of the present study was to describe morphological and morphometrical characteristics of male trichostrongylus species, currently prevalent in domestic ruminants of khuzestan province , south­west iran. methods: gastro-in...