Background. Uremic pruritus (UP) is a common symptom in patients undergoing maintenance hemodialysis for end-stage renal disease (ESRD). Objective. To determine the clinical efficacy of auricular acupressure therapy on pruritus in hemodialysis patients and to explore possible underlying mechanisms. Methods. Patients receiving maintenance hemodialysis at a referral medical center were recruited ...

Crude aqueous and methanolic extracts of 97 plant species belonging to 35 families collected from the west of Iran were screened for antifungal activity against economically important phytopathogenic fungi, Pythium aphanidermatum. Bioassay of the extracts was conducted by paper disc diffusion method on agar plate cultures with four replications. Seventeen of 97 (17.5%) plant species showed inhi...

The aqueous extracts of the seeds oat ( Avena sativa L.), horse chestnut Aesculus hippocastanum L . ), soybean Glycine max cowherb Vaccaria hispanica [P. Mill.] Rauschert) and quinoa Chenopodium Willd.), roots soapwort Saponaria officinalis L.) without any preservatives were characterized in terms their surface tension, compression (dilational) rheology, foamability foam stability. saponin cont...

in order to investigate the presence of carnation etched ring virus (cerv), samples of carnation (dianthus caryophyllus), sweet william (dianthus barbatus) and weed plants showing symptoms from greenhouses of khorasan razavi and northern khorasan provinces were collected in autumn 2009. polyclonal antiserum was used in order to detection of cerv by double- antibody sandwich-enzyme linked immuno...

Carnation (Dianthus caryophylinus) is one of the most popular ornamental flowers worldwide. etched ring virus (CERV), belonging to Caulimovirus genus, second significant on carnation crops around world. CERV particles are isometric, with a diameter 47 nm, which contains double-stranded, circular DNA at length about 7932 kbp as genome. causes necrotic flecks, rings and line patterns leaves. Infe...