This manuscript is the result of ethnobotany and ethnopharmacology survey on the Hezar Mountain in SE of Iran. Traditional botanical medicine is the primary mode of healthcare for most of the population of this region. The plants were collected in and around Hezar mountain from 2008-2010. The authors have conducted an interview of total 75 informants; The traditional uses of 92 species belongin...

Psychological eating disorders--anorexia nervosa (AN), bulimia nervosa (BN), binge eating disorder--are an increasing public health problem with severe clinical manifestations: hypothermia, hypotension, electrolyte imbalance, endocrine disorders and kidney failure; they are of interest to nephrologists, but pathophysiological mechanisms in determining the renal involvement are still unclear. We...

The kidney of camel is known to play a vital role in water conservation through the production of highly concentrated urine that may predispose animal to varieties of renal dysfunction. In camels renal disorders have received lesser attention in comparison with other animals, thus there is shortage of information in this area. The present study was conducted on 100 slaughtered camels (Camelus d...

In this review, we described the tubular function of each nephron segment followed by the most important changes that may occur in the transporters expressed therein. Thus, knowledge of the changes in renal tubular function allows the understanding and recognition of renal tubular diseases that can cause stillbirth or death in newborns or in childhood. Moreover, children with tubular disorders ...

A literature review and our own data are presented to demonstrate that urinary albumin (UA) excretion increases in many renal disorders and that it offers a far more sensitive indicator than the commonly used urinary total protein (UTP) for the early detection of renal involvement in many chronic diseases such as diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and systemic lupus erythematosus. In many individ...