The green revolution fulfilled the food demand of crowded millions. From the time of green revolution to till date high yielding and fertilizer responsive varieties have evolved to increase the production per unit area. To improve the productivity only major nutrients are concentrated almost in all crops. Though the importance of micronutrient realized during past decades in most of the crops b...

ferropenia and consequent iron deficiency anemia (ida), β-thalassemia, and glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase (g6pd) deficiency are three main common hematological problems in iran. this study was conducted to investigate the prevalence of these problems in turkish migrating nomads in southern iran. from june to october 2006, the blood sample of 152 turkish migrating nomadic children including 7...

introduction: it is generally assumed that 50% of the cases of anemia are due to iron deficiency. the most severe consequence of iron depletion is iron deficiency anemia (ida), and it is still considered the most common nutrition deficiency worldwide. the main risk factors for ida include: inadequate iron intake, impaired absorption or transport, physiologic losses associated with chronological...

abstract background iron-deficiency anemia is a widespread public health problem with major consequences for human health especially, children. however, in a fraction of patients an underlying cause is never found during routine investigation. recent studies have suggested an association between helicobacter pylori (h. pylori) infection and iron-deficiency anemia. case presentation here is repo...

The Spontaneously Epileptic Rat (SER), a double-mutant for tremor and zitter mutations, shows spontaneous occurrences of absence-like and tonic seizures. Several lines of evidence suggest that the combined effect of Aspa and Atrn mutations is the most likely cause of the epileptic phenotype of the SER. To address this issue, we produced a new double-mutant mouse line carrying both homozygous As...

The transcription factor Gata6 regulates proliferation and differentiation of epithelial and endocrine cells and cancers. Among hematopoietic cells, Gata6 is expressed selectively in resident peritoneal macrophages. We thus examined whether the loss of Gata6 in the macrophage compartment affected peritoneal macrophages, using Lyz2-Cre x Gata6(flox/flox) mice to tackle this issue. In Lyz2-Cre x ...

abstractbackground: this study aimed to present a rare case of neu-laxova syndrome (nls) and review the newly revealed genetic features of the disease in hopes to find a way for early interventions.case report: female newborn with nls was born at 30 weeks of gestation to consanguineous parents. the last prenatal ultrasound imaging revealed severe intrauterine growth restriction and microcephaly...

in a survey carried out to establish the incidence of erythrocyte glucose­ 6-phosphate-dehydrogenase deficiency, 738 professional blood donors of tehran were examined. the fluorescent spot technique was used for screening and qualitative determination of g-6-pd in erythrocytes. this technique was compared with other methods of g-6-pd enzyme assay and proved to be very reliable. qualitative enzy...