Cardiovascular diseases are the major causes of death in Iran. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of conventional risk factors for coronary artery disease in Lor migrating tribes in southern part of Iran. Two hundred six persons of Lor migrating tribes in Mamasani, southern Iran (age range, 21 - 80 years) were randomly enrolled in the study. Their serum total cholesterol, tri...

AIM This study was performed to determine the genetic diversity of Toxoplasma gondii in sheep using nested-polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism (PCR-RFLP) in Southern Iran. MATERIALS AND METHODS The tissue samples of diaphragm and heart from 125 sheep were collected from the main slaughterhouses of Jahrom district in South of Fars province, Iran, between Aprils a...

background: acute mesenteric ischemia (ami) is a catastrophic disorder of gastrointestinal tract with high mortality. due to recognition in advanced stages and late treatment of patients, the disease is still a highly fatal one. this study was conducted to determine the characteristics of the disease in the region. â  methods: in a retrospective study, all patients’ records of public and priv...

BACKGROUND Thromboembolic disease (TED) after knee arthroplasty occurs infrequently in Iran. The aim of this study was to examine the incidence of TED in patients with osteoarthritis undergoing knee replacement in Southern Iran while on prophylaxis. MATERIALS & METHODS In a case series study from January to December 2012, 100 consecutive total knee arthroplasty (TKA) candidates were evaluated...

AIM There is little information about the prevalence of Corynosoma caspicum in fish particularly Gasterosteus aculeatus in Iran and the world. The aim of the present study was to find out the prevalence of acanthocephalan infection in Babolsar district, southern coastal of Caspian Sea, Northern Iran. MATERIALS AND METHODS Between September 2012 and August 2014, a total of 360 G. aculeatus fis...

Artemisia species, which are medically beneficial, are widespread in temperate regions of both Northern and Southern hemispheres among which Iran is located. About 35 species of Artemisia are indigenous in Iran among them some are widespread in all or most provinces, yet some are restricted to some specific regions. In this review paper, initially, GC-Mass results of some experiments done in di...

Fatemeh Ghasemi, J. Peinke, M. Reza Rahimi Tabar, and Muhammad Sahimi Department of Physics, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran 11365, Iran Carl von Ossietzky University, Institute of Physics, D-26111 Oldenburg, Germany CNRS UMR 6529, Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, BP 4229, 06304 Nice Cedex 4, France Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Southern Californ...

Iran is known as the most complex and varied country in southwest Asia, in terms of geography, vegetation, climate and consequently biological diversity. The rather high number of recorded endemic species of Fulgoromorpha in Iran indicates a high potential for speciation in some areas. In this study, in order to identify the endemic zones for Fulgoromorpha of Iran, three main biogeographic regi...

Despite an increasing prevalence of obesity and hypertension in young age, there is limited information on the contribution of body mass index (BMI) to blood pressure (BP) in these populations, especially in developing countries. This study examines the association between BMI and BP in four populations of school age children across southern region of Islamic republic of Iran.