α-Synuclein (α-Syn) fibrillation links with Parkinson's disease (PD) and several related syndromes. It is believed that exposure to the factors which promote fibrillation may induce and progress such neurodegenerative diseases (NDs). Herein, the effects of some wildly used essential oils including Myrtus communis (M. communis) on α-Syn fibrillation were examined. M. communis particularly increa...

aging coefficient (ac), or aged–child ratio, is the number of individuals aged 65 years and over, divided by the number of individuals aged 0-14, multiplied by 100. in this point–descriptive study, the aging coefficient has been calculated for the followers of four different religions, for the past four respective decades, according to sex and locality. overall age composition in different reli...

in 1944, henry corbin presented an article, the zoroastrians motives in sheikh al-ishraq, sohrawardi’s philosophy, in the institute of philosophy of iran. through this speech, he develops a sort of hermeneutics-phenomenological methodology to study sohrawardi and his philosophy, ishraq. this research, being done in the domain of translation studies, is looking for the ways through which this me...

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 The aim of this study was to assess the possible association between genetic polymorphisms of the glutathione S-transferase (GST) gene family and the risk of the development of metabolic syndrome (MS) in Zoroastrian females in Yazd, Iran. METHODS In this case-control study, GSTM1, T1, and P1 polymorphisms were genotyped in 51 randomly selected MS patients and 50 randomly selected h...

BACKGROUND The prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) varies among ethnic groups. We aimed to estimate the prevalence of diagnosed and undiagnosed diabetes mellitus, impaired fasting glucose (IFG), and impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) for the first time in an ethnic population, specifically Zoroastrian citizens in Yazd, Iran whose ages were 30 or older. METHODS In a cross-sectional stu...

religious texts of zoroastrianism and judaism, represents jewish religious thought and zoroastrians in the millennium b.c., in which the contribution of the occult beings in the creation and administration of world has been clearly is mentioned. according to the avesta, ahoorah mazda created the good world by assistance of heavenly being named, spenta maynioo and administrates it along with fra...

a total of 1611 serum samples collected from ten ethnically distinct populations of iran (turks and kurds of rezaieh, lurs, zabolis, baluchis, turks and kurds of shirvan, zoroastrians, tehranis and kermanis) were examined for haptoglobin, transrferrin and the third component of complement systems. the gene frequencies obtained of these samples were combined with those of the previous studies of...