Background: Aflatoxin M1 (AFM1) in industrial ice cream was analyzed by immunoaffinity column (IAC) clean-up followed high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) with a fluorescence detector (FLD) as highly-sensitive method to confirm and quantify AFM1 the samples. Methods: A total of 150 samples were randomly collected from supermarkets seven Iranian cities (Tehran, Tabriz, Karaj, Urmia, San...

A Qualitative Study of Causes and Contexts Substance Use Disorder among Students in the City Tabriz

BACKGROUND Abnormal eating behavior, unhealthy weight control methods, and eating disordered symptoms have risen among college students. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to examine disordered eating attitudes and their relationship with anthropometric and body composition indices in physical education students in Tabriz, the capital of East Azerbaijan province, Iran. PATIENTS AND METHOD...

In the best practices, planning of urban green spaces is managed in such a way that it follows the key principles such as meeting per capita standards and providing accessible and balanced distribution of these spaces all across the city. In the context of emerging economy, these principles are unfortunately not followed strictly all times. In this study, it is attempted to investigate Tabriz c...

In this study, Russian olive trees exhibiting witches’-broom symptoms were collected from urban green areas in Tabriz, the northwest of Iran. PCR analysis confirmed that phytoplasma caused disease and, according to resulting Sanger sequencing electropherogram, a mixed infection with two or more species within was revealed. Next-generation analyses, using Illumina method, performed on total DNA ...

This paper aims to examine the effect of price discounts on store image and eventually consumers’ purchase intention in online shopping context of cell-phones. For this purpose, two cell-phone brands; i.e., Nokia and HTC were selected to study among 248 professors, employees and university students from University of Tabriz, Iran during April-June 2012. Required data was collected through quest...

EFFECTS OF PATIENTS' ACTIVATION ON THEIR HEALTH MANAGEMENT AND ITS AFFECTING FACTORS IN THE PATIENTS UNDERGOING HEMODIALYSIS UNIT IMAM REZA (AS) HOSPITAL TABRIZ, IRAN

Monitoring and Health Risk Assessment of Nitrate in Drinking Water Rural Urban Areas Tabriz, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran

Food borne diseases are considered as the major problems for public health in the world and salmonella serotypes are the most important pathogens causing these types of diseases. Present study was carried out for the isolation of salmonella and determination of their antibiotic sensitivity and serovars from local, industrial and breeder poultry eggs. In this cross-sectional survey, 300 samples ...