The aim of this study was to compare the effects of dietary supplementation of ajwain (Trachyspermum ammi) and thyme (Thymus vulgaris) essential oils(EO)on nutrients digestibility, blood parameters and growth performanceof neonatal dairy calves during eight weeks. Sixty suckling dairy calves with an initial body weight (43.2±3.8 kg) were randomly allocated to five treatments including CO, contr...

background: we aimed to evaluate effect of euphorbia royleana exposure on histocytology of corpuscles of stannius in fish, heteropneustes fossilis. methods: fish were subjected to 2.47 mg/l and 0.618 mg/l of e. royleana for short-term and long-term exposure, respectively. blood samples were collected on 24, 48, 72 and 96 h in short-term and after 7, 14, 21, and 28 d in long-term experiment and ...

s i n c e t h e l a t e 1960s, s e v e r a l c o n s t i t u t i v e m o d e l s h a v e b e e n d e v e l o p e d f o r s a n d s d e s c r i b i n g t h e i r s t r e s s-s t r a i n e h a v i o r. m o s t o f t h e s e m o d e l s w e r e e s t a b l i s h e d b a s e d o n a m e a s u r e o f t h e p l a s t i c w o r k a n d s o m e y i e l d c r i t e r i a, a m o n g t h e m b e i n g t ...

introduction: d-galactose (d-gal) is well known as an appropriate agent to induced aging effects in the in vivo and in vitro models. in the present study, we selected crocin, the main constituent of crocus sativus l. (saffron), against d-gal cytotoxicity in human neuroblastoma sh-sy5y cells. materials and methods:  cells were pretreated with crocin (25-500 µm) for 24 h and then exposed to d-gal...

tumors of t h e male u ret h ra are r a re, co m prising <1% of urolo g ic malignancies. this is a re po rt of a 44-ye a r-old man pre s ented with a 4 -month history of gross initi a l h e maturia and d y s u ri a . af t e r exami n ing the pa t ien t , we found a firm mass ex t ending 1 c m within the p roxim a l bulb a r uret h ra and a pathologic report of moderately differen t iated sq u a...