background: fish have been at high risk of atrazine toxicity. comparative atrazine toxicity on the tissues of clarias gariepinus is scanty. therefore, acute and chronic effects of atrazine on some biochemical parameters in clarias gariepinus were investigated in this study. methods: atrazine toxicity was determined by assessing the responses of glucose, protein, alanine aminotransferase (alt), ...

Introduction: Methamphetamine (METH) is a neurotoxic psychostimulant with highly addictive potential that leads to compulsive drug use and vulnerability to relapse. Environmental cues, such as drug exposure, peer influence, and social stress, are the powerful triggers of drug relapse. In  this  study,  we  tried  to  find  out  the effect of acute and chr...

Background: Flubendiamide, comparatively a new pesticide designed to eradicate lepidopteran insect pests is known to have low risk to birds, mammals, fish, algae, honey bees, non-target arthropods, earthworms, soil macro- and micro-organisms, non-target plants as well as sewage treatment organisms; however, the risk assessment for aquatic invertebrates from metabolite could not be finalized wit...

cyclizine (1-benzhydryl-4-methyl-piperazine, cas 82-92-8, cyc, i), a piperazine derivative, belongs to h1 antihistamine group of drugs that shows such pharmacological properties as anti-inflammatory, anti-allergic and anti-platelet effects, similar to other h1-receptor antagonists. in this study, two new tolyl and cumene derivatives of i (1-ethyl-4-[(p-isopropylphenyl) (p-tolyl) methyl]-piperaz...

Stress is a reaction to unwanted events disturbing body homeostasis which influences its pathways and target areas. Stress affects the brain through the lateral hypothalamic area (LHA) orexinergic system that mediates the effect of corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) through CRH receptor type 1 (CRHr1). Therefore, this study explores the outcome of stress exposure on anxiety development and t...

background: low back pain (lbp) is one of the most common problems among the workers of different industries. the role of occupational factors in causing the lbp has been indicated previously. lbp has great socio-economic costs and most of its costs are related to the chronic lbp. the aim of this study was to identify the occupational risk factors that are related to the progression of the lbp ...

formaldehyde is a common indoor pollutant with irritant properties. the present case control study was undertaken among 37 exposed staff with formaldehyde and 19 non exposed (referent) ones to study the acute and chronic effects of it in two educational hospitals. all subjects were tested for respiratory function by a portable alpha vitalograph-uk. in addition using a respiratory questionnaire,...