background: sustainable and commercial production of taxol as an anti cancer drug is a critical point to its clinical application. nowadays, hazel because of rapid growth and wide range distribution is considered as an alternative source of taxol. objective: to increase taxol production the cdna encoding 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-coa reductase (hmgr) from iranian hazel (genebank accession numb...

objective(s): the purpose of this study was to conduct a meta-analysis on human micrornas (mirnas) expression data of endometriosis tissue profiles versus those of normal controls and to identify novel putative diagnostic markers. materials andmethods: pubmed, embase, web of science, ovid medline were used to search for endometriosis mirna expression profiling studies of endometriosis. the mirn...

transcatheter ablation of atrioventricular accessory pathway is the therapy of choice in symptomatic patients. the ablation of posteroseptal accessory pathways thas some important points due to its anatomical location. catheter ablation of posteroseptal accessory pathways via left side approach is time consuming with low success rate and higher complications. we performed successful transcathet...

background: echinococcus multilocularis is a tiny tapeworm, responsible for 0.3~0.5 million alveolar echinococcosis in humans. methods: we searched relevant papers published between 1981 and 2013 based on the database sources such as pubmed and google scholar, and collected and integrated the data for analysis. results: the parasite is able to use host-originated molecules to modulate its devel...