the majority of the long stay psychiatric patients who are in need of rehabilitation suffer from schizophrenia. most of them enter the old age with this illness, and besides the consequences of schizophrenia, they are facing the deprivation and misery due to the old age. in contrast to the previous decades in which there was no effective treatment for schizophrenia, today with the immediate dia...

in this research, 514 soil samples and dead larvae were collected from khorassan, lorestan, tehran, ghazvin, east azarbaijan, west azarbaijan, mazandaran and hamedan provinces. b. thuringiensis was isolated from the samples using a heat-acetate method and the isolates were identified and classified using biochemical tests. the frequency of b. thuringiensis in soils with different plant communit...

environmental factors mainly temperature are believed to determine the distribution and population dynamics of fusarium species in a natural ecosystem. species may be restricted in their distribution by adaptation to specific sets of soil environmental conditions. population dynamics of five fusarium species representative of different climatic conditions were studied at three levels of tem...

Introduction: Psychological stresses influence brain functions such as learning and memory. Environmental factors like types and durations of stress affect brain responsiveness. This study investigated the effects of two subchronic social and isolation stresses on learning, memory, adrenal glands weight and corticosterone levels in the hippocampus and frontal cortex. Methods: Eighteen male ...

oak trees cover a wide range of forests in iran and most of them are located in kohgiloye and boyer-ahmad province (k.b). the high tannin is one of the anti-nutritional characteristics of acorn for domestic animal. wide range of gut microorganisms could tolerate tannin and reduce it by producing tannase enzyme. this study was carried out to isolate and identify the tannin resistance bacteria (t...

α-galycoceramide (α-galcer) or the common name of krn7000 is an α-gelasphin derivative. the α-galcer structure consists of a galactose combined with a ceramide in an α-configuration. social isolation (si) has been linked with enhanced inflammation, through modifications in transcriptional pathways linked with glucocorticoid, to stress. our hypothesis is to investigate mediatory role of glucocor...

mitochondria play key roles in many cell functions including energy production, fatty acid metabolism, pyrimidine biosynthesis, calcium homeostasis, and aging. they also regulate crucial signaling cascades such as apoptosis and oxidative stress. the proteome is often used to investigate the functional correlations on protein levels. based upon the human, genome there is estimated 2000 to 2500 a...

background: campylobacter jejune and c. coli are recognized as the most common bacteriological causes of gastroenteritis in humans. in this study identification of campylobacter jejuni and campylobacter coli from samples using pcr was explored. methods: detection was performed using diarrheal samples collected 8 from 117 children. the genomic dna of samples was extracted by phenol-chloroform me...

background: the aim of the study was to provide a point of reference to study the neospora caninum infections in china. methods: genome dna was extracted from the brains of aborted fetuses and specific pcr was performed with n. caninum nc5-targeted specific primers. fetal bovine brain tissues were homogenized and continuously cultured in vero cells with double antibodies. the medium was replace...