The use of an endemic plant as rootstock has many merits but its application for cucurbits production not been extensively investigated. present study determined the growth responses grafted cucumber using two rootstocks from Cucurbita pepo L. fertilized with different ratios nitrate (NO3-): ammonium (NH4+) fertilizer. A greenhouse was carried out (C. sativus ‘Dominos’) on accessions collected ...

Abstract Background and Aims: Medical students are exposed to various infectious diseases during their clinical training period, including measles and rubella. In Iran, to control the outbreaks of measles and rubella a mass vaccination campaign was conducted on 2003. The present investigation evaluates Immunity to measles and rubella in a group of Babol medical students and determines the ...

Regarding the fact that two thirds of children's life passes in school, it is important for teachers to have enough knowledge about asthma and how to encounter the disease. Children become panic in asthma attack and this behavior is normal. These children should be supported by other children in the school. Teachers should identify asthmatic patient. Also it is important that patient's classmat...

BACKGROUND Aflatoxin M(1) (AFM(1)) is the metabolite of aflatoxin B1 (AFB(1)) and is found in milk when lactating animals are fed with contaminated feedstuff. The presence of AFM(1) in milk, pose a major risk for humans especially kids as it can have immunosuppressive, mutagenic, teratogenic and carcinogenic effects. The present study is aimed to investigate the occurrence of AFM(1) in subsidiz...

Objective Diabetes mellitus (DM) has several ophthalmic complications with rethinopathy being the most visually disruptive outcome of uncontrolled disease. The aim of this study was to determine frequency of ophthalmic complications in diabetes mellitus. Methods This descriptive study was performed on 140 type II diabetic patients in Shahid Beheshti Hospital during 2007-2008. All patients were ...

background rubella is a viral disease with a worldwide distribution. mass vaccination campaigns have increased the vaccine coverage in the world with substantial impact on reduction of rubella infections. in iran, the national measles-rubella campaign, targeting individuals 5-25 years old, was initiated in 2003 and mass childhood vaccination against measles, rubella and mumps has continued ever...

∗ Corresponding author: Cellular and Molecular Biology Research Center (CMBRC), Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran. Email: [email protected] he role of the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) as a transport medium for biologically and behaviorally active hormones, drugs, and other such molecules has become increasingly evident over the past decade. It is a good sample for the reflect...

background: cervical cancer is the second most common cancer in the world among women and human papilloma virus (hpv) plays a major role in its development. the aim of this study was to determine the frequency of hpv type 16 and 18 in cervical discharge by polymerase chain reaction (pcr) method in women with atypical biopsy or papsmear. method: this case- control study was performed on women i...