Seied Rabie Mahdavi1 Ph.D., Alireza Shirazi2 Ph.D., Ali Khodadadee3 BS.c., Mostafa Ghaffory4 MS.c. and Asghar Mesbahi5 Ph.D 1Dept. of Medical Physics, Faculty of Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran 2Dept. of Medical Physics, Faculty of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran 3Azad Research and Science University, Tehran 4Secondary Standard Dosimetry Laboratory ...

Interrelationships, origin and phylogenetic affinities of brown trout Salmo trutta populations from the southern Caspian Sea basin, Orumieh and Namak Lake basins in Iran were analysed from complete mtDNA control region sequences, 12 microsatellite loci and morphological characters. Among 129 specimens from six populations, seven haplotypes were observed. Based on mtDNA haplotype data, the Orumi...

OBJECTIVE This retrospective observational report analyzes the demographics, blood loss, length of surgical duration, number of days in the hospital, and complications for 821 consecutive patients undergoing total laparoscopic hysterectomy over a 11-year period stratified by incidental appendectomy. METHODS A retrospective chart abstraction was performed. ANOVA and chi-square tests were perfo...

A phosphatase, active towards phosphorylase a and phosphorylated proteins casein and histone II-A, was isolated from Saccharomyces cerevisiae 257. The enzyme dephosphorylated glycogen phosphorylase from commercial yeast rendering it inactive. The protein phosphatase activity was not influenced by any metal ions. Phosphorylase phosphatase activity was slightly stimulated by p-nitrophenyl phospha...

Point mutations and copy number variations in SNCA, the gene encoding alpha-synuclein, cause familial Parkinson's disease (PD). A dinucleotide polymorphism (REP1) in the SNCA promoter may be a risk factor for common forms of PD. We studied 1,802 PD patients and 2,129 controls from the NeuroGenetics Research Consortium, using uniform, standardized protocols for diagnosis, subject recruitment, da...

One of the most important and perilous groundwater contaminants is nitrate. The study area unconfined (free) aquifer Karaj, located in central Iran, which subject to quantity quality hazards due unbalanced urban, industrial, agricultural developments. Evaluation vulnerability condition this against nitrate as contamination index essential since consumed water provided by groundwater. This paper...

Lumazine synthase from Brucella spp. (BLS) is a highly immunogenic decameric protein. It is possible to insert foreign peptides or proteins at its ten-amino acid termini. These chimeras elicit systemic and oral immunity without adjuvants, which are commonly needed in the formulation of subunit-based vaccines. Here, we show that BLS induces the cross presentation of a covalently attached peptide...

Solving a new multi-objective hybrid flexible flowshop problem with limited waiting times and machinesequence-dependent set-up time constraints S.F. Attar a , M. Mohammadi a , R. Tavakkoli-Moghaddam b & S. Yaghoubi c a Department of Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Engineering , Kharazmi University , Karaj , Iran b Department of Industrial Engineering, College of Engineering and Center of Exc...