Cassia fistula seeds have many therapeutic uses in traditional medicine practice. The present investigation was undertaken to demonstrate the anticandidal activity of the C. fistula seed extract at ultra-structural level through transmission electron microscope (TEM) and scanning electron microscope (SEM) observations. The effect of seed extract on the growth profile of the Candida albicans was...

background: recent studies have shown that benzene extract of ocimum sanctum (o. sanctum) leaves induces the ultrastructural changes in the epithelial cells of the cauda epididymis, its subsequent recovery in the seminiferous epithelium and fertility of male albino rats. objective: our aim was to investigate the effect of benzene extract of o.sanctum leaves on the cauda epididymal sperm paramet...

candida species are the most common cause of opportunistic fungal infection worldwide. due to increasing resistance of fungi against conventional drugs, as well as their side effects, alternative natural products have become a renewed interest. in the current study, the anti-candida activities of scrophularia striata extract were examined. in this experimental study, microdilution assay and wel...

Background and Aims: Ferula Assafoetida is an antioxidant plant which has long been used in Iranian traditional medicine. Recently, it has been reported to have hypoglycemic and hyperinsulinemic effects, but the molecular mechanism of this effect have not been sufficiently described. This study was a step to evaluate the molecular mechanism of Ferula assafoetida action as an antihyperglycemic a...

Background: Lead is known to be a highly toxic heavy metal which has a wide range of effect on human health. It has been proven that probiotics are able to bind heavy metals and remove them from the environment. In this study, the effect of Lactobacillus fermentum (L. fermentum) and its cytoplasmic extract were investigated on the hematological and body weight parameters in lead exposed rats. ...

background: inflammatory bowel disease unclassified (ibdu) is considered to be an aberrant immune response with loss of tolerance to many antigens. objective: this paper tries to address whether there is any value to test for auto-antibodies in such patients. methods: 60 patients with inflammatory bowel disease unclassified participated in the study. auto-antibodies to nuclear antigen, intestin...

An experimental arrangement is described which enables high quality 31P NMR spectra of compressed spinach leaf pieces to be continuously recorded in which all the resonances observed (cytoplasmic and vacuolar Pi, glycerate-3-P, nucleotides) were sharp and well resolved. 31P NMR spectra obtained from intact chloroplasts showed a distinct peak of stromal Pi. An upfield shift of the stromal Pi res...

The major cat allergen Fel d 1 is one of the most common and potent causes animal related allergy. Medical treatment allergy has relied on immunotherapy carried out with dander extract. This approach been problematic, mainly due to inconsistent levels in produced extracts. Recombinant DNA technology proposed as an alternative method produce more consistent pharmaceuticals for diagnostics Curren...

Single-molecule tracking (SMT) of fluorescently tagged cytoplasmic proteins can provide valuable information on the underlying biological processes in living cells via subsequent analysis of the displacement distributions; however, the confinement effect originated from the small size of a bacterial cell skews the protein's displacement distribution and complicates the quantification of the int...

The 3*-end sequences of several human small RNAs were determined, and the results show that a fraction of human cytoplasmic 7SL, ribosomal 5S, and nuclear U2, U6, and 7SK small RNAs contain a post-transcriptionally added adenylic acid residue on their 3*-ends. Incubation of HeLa cell extract in vitro in the presence of [a-P]ATP resulted in labeling of several small RNAs including ribosomal 5S a...