background: there are reports about the increase of severity of infections in patients receiving morphine. therefore this study was aimed to evaluate the effect of morphine on phagocytic activity of peritoneal phagocytes of mice. methods: fifty six female balb/c mice, 6-8 weeks old and 28±2 gram weight, were divided into two groups. the case group received 20, 40, 60 and 80 mg/kg morphine on fi...

the objective of this experiment was to determine the effect of long-term low-dose administration of lead (pb) on thyroid function in sheep. in this experiment 10 healthy iranian male sheep, aged about oneyear- old were randomly allocated into two equal groups of control (n = 5) and experiment (n = 5). both groups were kept under the same conditions of food and environment. the treatment group ...

A 3 × 3 factorial experiment with three levels of fennel extract (FE) (0, 50, and 100 mg/kg of diet) and three levels of added vitamin D3 (Vit D3) (0, 3500 and 4200 IU/kg of diet), was carried out to evaluate reproductive performanceand immune response of post molted broiler breeders(76-84 weeks).Broiler breeders were weighed at 10 week after molting (74 weeks) then randomly distributed into 36...

based on rome iii criteria, functional disorders of gi are listed below:   infant regurgitation: -regurgitation two or more times per day for 3 or more weeks -no retching, hematemesis, aspiration, apnea, ftt, abnormal posturing infant rumination syndrome: -repetitive contraction of abdominal muscle -regurgitation of gastric content in to the mouth and reswallowed cyclic vomiting syndrome: -two ...