takab-e afshar in the north – west of iran. it is in a mountainous area near the cities of dandi in zanjan, and takab in west azerbaijan, lies a complex of historical and natural properties among which stands the world heritage properties of takht-e soleyman with all its features. the present protective buffers for this site have been defined without considering the natural and cultural landsca...

several plant extracts and phytoconstituents, despite having excellent bioactivity in vitro, demonstrate less or no in vivo actions due to their poor lipid solubility or improper molecular size or destruction in gut. drug delivery system for polyphenolic phytoconstituents (phytosomes) was prepared by complexing polyphenolic phytoconstituents with phospholipid mainly phosphatidylcholine which bi...

Inbreeding and relatedness in wild panda populations are important parameters for panda conservation. Habitat loss and fragmentation are expected to increase inbreeding but the actual inbreeding levels in natural panda habitats were unknown. Using 150,025 SNPs and 14,926 SNPs selected from published whole-genome sequences, we estimated genomic inbreeding coefficients and relatedness of 49 panda...