In this two-stage empirical research, the authors attempted to study the impact of promoting translation sub-competences defined by PACTE's Multi-Componential Model for Translation Competence on the promotion of total translation competence as the first stage. The experiment for this purpose was conducted on a group of Iranian undergraduate students comprising of their exposure to a targeted sy...

background: free-living amoebae have various genera that are found in several environmental niches such as soil, freshwater, dust, seawater and hot springs. most of free-living amoebae are normally harmless to humans. however, some such as acanthamoeba and also naegleria fowleri , balamuthia manderillaris and sappinia are identified as opportunistic and pathogenic amoebae that can cause eye dis...

Leukocytes from patients with acute granulocytic leukemia (AGL), acute monocytic leukemia (AMoL) and blastic crisis of chronic granulocytic leukemia (BC) were incubated with serine-U-C’4 or aspartic acid-U-C’4. The metabolism was followed by determination of radioactivity of CO , lipids, proteins, organic acids, and nucleotides. Leukemic leukocytes in AGL, AMoL, and BC exhibit high serine utili...

Objective: Sufficient intakes of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) via breast milk are required for optimizing visual and neural development at early stages of life. Little or no information is available on DHA intakes and levels found in breast milk in Iranian women and surrounding regions. In this study we measure the DHA in the breast milk of lactating Iranian women from low and high – fish-eating ...

Peripheral blood leukemia cells from patients with acute monoblastic leukemia (AMoL) were tested for killer cell activity against target cells that detected natural killer cell-mediated or monocyte-mediated spontaneous cytotoxicity. The fibrosarcoma cell line Wehi 164, pretreated with actinomycin D to induce susceptibility to lysis, specifically detects the activity of unstimulated human monocy...

In this issue, Zou et al. report that vitamin C abrogated the ability of bortezomib (PS-341, Velcade) to induce apoptosis, G2-M arrest, and cleavage of caspase 8, caspase 3, and poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase and to augment tumor necrosis factor–related apoptosis-inducing ligand–induced apoptosis in various human cancer cell lines (1). Moreover, vitamin C suppressed bortezomib-mediated inhibition ...