welsh onion (allium fistulosum l.) is one of the important vegetable crops in china. however, the seeds of this crop are short-lived and their vitality tends to be easily lost in the course of storage. the present study was conducted to elucidate the effects of welsh onion seed priming with potassium nitrate (kno3) on seed vigor and on other such related mechanisms during twelve months of stora...

The rapid evolution of bacteria is crucial to their survival and is caused by exchange, transfer, and uptake of DNA, among other things. Conjugation is one of the main mechanisms by which bacteria share their DNA, and it is thought to be controlled by varied bacterial immune systems. Contradictory results about restriction-modification systems based on phenotypic studies have been presented as ...

raspberry waste, obtained from two cultivars, meeker (erm) and willamette (erw) was subjected to evaluation antioxidants and antitumour activities as a potential source of phenolics. some phenolic acids and flavonoids were identified and quantified by hplc. antioxidant activity was tested by measuring ability to scavenge dpph• and •oh by esr spectroscopy. ic50dpph• varied from 0.67 for erm to 0...

thyrotoxicosis is a condition in which tissues are stimulated by increased secretion of thyroid hormone. the most common cause is diffuse toxic goiter and toxic multi-nodular goiter. for more reviews on this disease, the effects of hyperthyroidism on liver enzyme levels were studied. a total of 30 adult male wistar rats weighing about 190 g were purchased from the pasteur institute of iran. in ...

the genus fusarium is a species rich genus. different media are required to study themorphological characters and classify different species, a time consuming technique. in this study pecticzymograms were used to identify species and form species of fusarium isolates. fusarium isolates (318) wereobtained from different areas and hosts in isfahan province, iran. isolates were identified to speci...

a total of 1695 blood samples collected from ten ethnically distinct populations of iran (turks and kurds of rezaieh, lurs, aabolis, baluchis, turks and kurds of shrvan, zoroastrians, tehranis, and kermanis) were examined for six polymorphic red cell enzyme systems, namely red cell acid phosphatase (ap), adenylate kinase (ak), phosphoglucomutase (pgm1), esteraxe d (esd), adenosine deaminase (ad...

background cyclosporine a (csa)-induced hepatotoxicity could be due to a reduction in α2β1 integrin expression that may either be from the direct effect of csa itself or from reactive oxygen species (ros) overproduction. objectives in this study we aimed to identify the cellular mechanisms underlying csa-induced hepatic injury by investigating the activation patterns of the antioxidant enzymes,...

carbosulfan (2,3-dihydro-2,2dimethyl-7-benzofuronyl [(dibutyl amino) thio] methyl] a carbamate insecticide and acaricide was administered orally at an effective dose of 48 mg/kg/day to albino mice for 5, 10, 20 and 30 days .control mice received similar quantities of olive oil. daily body weights were recorded and mice were sacrificed after 24 hours after the terminal exposure. the histologic e...