introduction: during radiotherapy, high accuracy in the dose delivery is required because there is a strong  relationship between the absorbed dose, local tumor control and particularly the normal tissue damage. in  many institutions, in vivo dosimetry using diodes is performed to check the actual dose delivered. in general,  the uncertainty in the dose delivered should fall within  ± 5% of the...

background: in leishmaniasis, some drugs prescribed for treatment have toxic ef-fects and there are reports about drug resistance in some countries. due to this fact, using herbal drugs such as artemisinin with good efficacy and low toxic effect might be suitable. methods: we evaluated the apoptotic effect of artemisinin on leishmania major in vitro and the antileishmanial activities of artemis...

background: toxoplasma gondii is the most common parasite causing latent cerebral infections in human. it has been shown that some anti-psychotic drugs are able to inhibit the proliferation of the parasite in in vitro study. there is very limited data regarding the inhibitory effect of anti-psychotics on toxoplasma in in vivo . in this study, we evaluated anti- toxoplasma activity of fluphenazi...