common yew taxus baccata l. is an evergreen, slow growing   tree, indigenous of hyrcanian forests in iran. discovery of paclitaxel as an   anti tumor agent in the bark of taxus has increased importance of this   plant for treatment of breast and ovary cancer, especially 7000 women die annually   due to breast cancer in iran. regarding destructive method of paclitaxel   production and protection...

different strains of escherichia coli (e. coli) from human, chickens, and the common strain between human and chickens were isolated and typed with mono-specific antibody. the e. coli strains from each group of human, chicken and common between human and chicken were selected. the polypeptide patterns of selected strains were analyzed and compared with each other by sodium dodecyle sulphate pol...

this paper represents a new region-based active contour model that can be used to segment images with intensity non-uniformity and high level noise. the main idea of our proposed method is to use gaussian distributions with different means and variances with incorporation of intensity non-uniformity model for image segmentation. in order to integrate the spatial information between neighboring ...

the purpose of the study was to determine the effect of fasting on physical abilities and body lipid levels of university students. therefore, 18 fasting students (9 male and 9 female) and 18 non-fasting students (9 male and 9 female) were randomly selected and tested for the following variables before and after ramazan month: blood sample of chol- total, trig, chol/ hdl, ldl and sfm of hand an...

Estrogen therapy may increase the risk of arterial thromboembolism, at least in the short term. In a randomized, double-blind and placebo-controlled study in 25 healthy postmenopausal women (52.5 +/- 2.8 years), we therefore examined the short-term effect of unopposed estrogen on the fasting and fat-load-stimulated plasma levels of total factor VII versus active factor VII. Plasma total factor ...