a5.2 year-old holstein cow was presented with lameness andabnormal weight bearing in a slaughterhouse. widening of theperiople and swelling of the heel area in the lateral claw was morepermanent than the medial claw. vertical fissure (vf) involvingthe coronary band to the middle of the dorsal wall of the medialhind claw was observed. it was also extended to the bearingsurface in the inner surfa...

in this paper, a pointwise pseudo-metric function on the l-realline is constructed. it is proved that the topology induced by this pointwisepseudo-metric is the usual topology.

data envelopment analysis (dea) with considering the best condition for each decision making unit (dmu) assesses the relative efficiency for it and divides a homogenous group of dmus in to two categories: efficient and inefficient, but traditional dea models can not rank efficient dmus. although some models were introduced for ranking efficient dmus, franklin lio & hsuan peng (2008), proposed a...

introduction: oxidative stress and neuroinflammation are involved in neurodegeneration procedure in parkinson’s disease. recently, neuroprotective potential of boswellia resin has been demonstrated. therefore, this study examined whether administration of boswellia resin would attenuate mpp+- induced neuronal death in sk-n-sh- cell line, a human dopaminergic neurons- in vitro. methods: boswelli...

background and aims: plants as medicines have always played a vital role in human life. tumor necrosis factor alpha (tnf)-α is one of the macrophage-derived inflammatory cytokine with pleotropic effects in the inflammation process. some studies have been demonstrated that some of the echinops species have anti-inflammatory activity. in fact, echinops lasilepis is introduced as one of the native...

phlomis lanceolata is a medicinal plant that has long been used to treat various conditions such as diabetes, gastric ulcer, hemorrhoids, inflammation and wounds. as most of phlomis species have shown cytotoxic activity against proliferation of different cell lines, a biological investigation of p. lanceolata was carried out in this study. the aim of this study was to find out the in vitro cyto...

objective: cervical cancer is the second most common cause of death from cancer in women throughout the world. the aim of this study was to evaluate the cytotoxic activity of kelussia odoratissima (k. odoratissima) extract associated with radiotherapy in cervical cancer cells (hela cell line).materials and methods: different concentration of the extract (25-500µg/ml) was tested in hela cell lin...

objective: recent evidences suggest that tumors arise from a small subpopulation of cells, the cancer stem cells (cscs) or tumor initiating cells. cscs are able to resist the conventional methods of cancer therapy due to existence of abc transporters on their surface. this leads to csc resistance and maintenance resulting in post-treatment relapse and metastasis. therefore, precise identificati...

objective: wheat is the most important crop in iran. self sufficiency in wheat production is one of the economic and food safety policies in the country. in spite of the efforts which have been made in this area, the mean of wheat yield in iran is less than its world average. methods: in order to identifying of the high yielding wheat lines with optimal characteristics and to determine the trai...

the task of balancing of assembly lines is well-known in mass production system but this problem is np-hard even for the simple straight line. therefore, utilizing heuristic methods for these problems is totally unquestionable. furthermore, in line with balancing problems, heuristic methods are the foundation of the metaheuristic methods, thus it seems to be necessary to use more efficient heur...