tissue nutrient supply may be synchronized with endogenous physiological rhythms to optimize animal and human health. glucose tolerance and insulin sensitivity have endogenous rhythms that are not essentially dependent on food type and eating. human glucose tolerance declines as day comes into night. based on such evolutionary findings, large evening meals must be avoided to reduce risks of vis...

multiple sclerosis (ms) is one of the autoimmune diseases with an unknown cause. the aim of this study was to explore the link between air quality and ms relapses in patients who suffer from ms.this time-series study was conducted on patients registered at the iranian multiple sclerosis society in 2011-2012. they were randomly selected from patients lived in tehran in the last five years, and h...

background and objectives: we developed and evaluated the utility of a quadruplex taqman real-time pcr assay that allows simultaneous identification of vancomycin-resistant genotypes and clinically relevant enterococci. materials and methods: the specificity of the assay was tested using reference strains of vancomycin-resistant and susceptible enterococci. in total, 193 clinical isolates were ...

late spring frost usually damages flowers and reduces yield of almond trees. due to natural sexual reproduction, in most of almond orchards of qazvin province, iran, which have been established through seedling propagation, a vast genetic variation has been occurred. this situation has been provided many possibilities to study different traits of native almond genotypes, to select superior geno...

the sub-lethal effect of metarhizium anisopliae and imidacloprid as well as combination of the two control agents was examined on life table parameters of myzus persicae on different cultivars of canola under laboratory condition at 25 ± 1 ºc, 85% rh and photoperiod of 16l: 8d. the offspring resulting from fungus-infested adults were placed onto leaf discs in petri dishes separately to record t...

the writing of iranian architectural history has, from its start, followed the principles of western historiography. portions of this history are well expected to be neglected or unattended when writing of it takes place outside its intellectual framework that essentially reflects the iranian throught world. to have a truly iranian architectural historiography, one has to find the theoretical p...

literature concerning the effects of ramadan fasting on sports performance presents conflicting results. in this context, some studies reported a significant impairment of sports performance during the month of ramadan. however, other studies suggested that ramadan fasting has no significant effect on physical performance.  the discrepancies between the studies could be explained by time-of-day...