BACKGROUND Ethnobotanical knowledge continues to be important for treating illness in many rural communities, despite access to health care clinics and pharmaceuticals. However, access to health care clinics and other modern services can have an impact on the distribution of medical ethnobotanical knowledge. Many factors have been shown to be associated with distributions in this type of knowle...

in order to study the effects of growth promoting bacteria (gpr) and mycorrhizal fungi on seedling emergence, establishment and growth of two ecotypes alfalfa under salinity stress condition, an experiment was conducted in greenhouse of college of agriculture and natural resources, university of tehran in summer 2011. the experiment was arranged as a factorial with three replications. experimen...

Treatment with nerve growth factor was found to influence the subunit forms of dopamine @-hydroxylase in PC12 pheochromocytoma cells. In untreated cells, near equal amounts of two subunit forms were observed (apparent M, = 77,000 and 73,000) by labeling with [36S]methionine. Upon treatment of PC12 cells with nerve growth factor for several days, the M, = 73,000 subunit form of dopamine &hydroxy...

Pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) which contain diverse organic groups, such as antibiotics, hormones, antimicrobial agents, synthetic musks, etc., have raised significant concerns in recently years for their persistent input and potential threat to ecological environment and human health. China is a large country with high production and consumption of PPCPs for its economic d...

BACKGROUND Zinc deficiency is an important problem in children, especially in developing countries. Zinc supplements have beneficial effects on multiple factors, including treatment of growth retardation and hypogonadism, and they can be used as therapeutic and prophylactic agents against infection in children. OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of zinc deficiency in 6-month to 12-year-old...