BACKGROUND Northern Iran counts as one of the highest prevalence regions for esophageal cancer (EC) worldwide. This study was designed to assess the epidemiologic aspects of EC in north central and northwest Iran over a 10 year period. MATERIALS AND METHODS The Guilan cancer registry study (GCRS) is a population- based cancer registry study featuring retrospective (1996-2003) and prospective ...

Real estate appraisal is of great importance to several socio-economic stakeholders for different reasons and justifications: local governments and municipalities for taxation purposes; banks for mortgage and other credit applications processing; property valuation companies for marketing activities; and property developers and investors for sound investment decision-making. This paper summariz...

Pythium is a fungus-like genus with worldwide distribution that is found in most terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. It is a species-rich genus contains important plant pathogenic species. Little is known on the systematics of Pythium in West Azarbaijan province (N.W. Iran). Thus, the aim of this study was to identify 200 isolates collected from different cultivated soils of West Azarbaijan pro...

Correspondence and reprint request: Dr. Fanpu Ji, M.D. The second affiliated hospital, College of Medicine, Xi’an Jiaotong University, 157 Xi Wu Road, Xi’an 710004, Shaanxi Province, PR. China. Tel.: +86-29 8767-9275 Fax: +86-29 8767-9275 E mail: [email protected] Manuscript received: Octobre 4, 2011. Manuscript accepted: November 27, 2011. July-August, Vol. 11 No.4, 2012: 570-571 LETTER TO E...

Sensitive detection of T4 polynucleotide kinase activity based on cyclodextrin polymer enhanced fluorescence combined with exonuclease reaction Chunxia Song, Xiaohai Yang,* Kemin Wang,* Qing Wang, Jianbo Liu, Jin Huang, Leiliang He, Pei Liu, Zhihe Qing, Wei Liu State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, College of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, Key Laboratory for Bio-Nanotec...

Risiophlebia guentheri sp. nov. (holotype: Cambodia, Mondulkiri Province, Dak Dam village environs, a tall grass forest swamp, 12°25' N 107°19' E, ~780 m a.s.l., 16 June 2014, RMNH), the second species in its genus, is described from Central Plateau of the Annamese Mountains. The new species is most probably separated from R. dohrni by a 1000-km gap of the range of the genus in Thailand and mos...

The serum of foxes and red deer from the Province of Soria (northern Spain) was screened in indirect immunofluorescence assays to determine whether these animals could be used as sentinels of the tick-borne pathogens Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Ehrlichia chaffeensis. The results suggest that foxes and red deer would not make good sentinels in epidemiological studies on E. chaffeensis in this ...

Tianjin Key Laboratory of Pulp and Pa Technology, Tianjin 300457, China. E-m 60602226; Tel: +86-22-60602226 State Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing 10009 Jiangsu Province Biomass Energy and Ma Industry of Forest Products, CAF, Nanjing 2 State Key Laboratory of Pulp and Paper Technology, Guangzhou 510640, China † Electronic supplementary informa 10.1039/c6r...

the skull of two lacertid lizards of iran including eremias persica from isfahan province, central iranian plateau and mesalina watsonana from birjand in southern khorasan province, eastern iran, was described and compared based on seven dry skull preparations. prominent differences included: the shape of the premaxilla and its articulation with other skull elements, the shape of the frontal (p...

2010;23(4) S Afr J Clin Nutr a Lategan R, MSc Dietetics a Steenkamp L, PhD Dietetics b Joubert G, BA, MSc c Le Roux M, BSc (Diet), Hons (Diet) a Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa b Department of Biostatistics, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa c Department...