ashkan kavyani1, ahmad zare shahne1, javad pourreza1, sayed mohammad ali jalali haji-abadi1, mohsen nikkhah2, nasir landy 3*  1- department of animal science, shahrekord branch, islamic azad university, shahrekord, iran 2 -department of animal science, faculty of agriculture, university of guilan, iran 3-young researchers and elite club, khorasgan branch, islamic azad university, isfahan, iran ...

We have read with interest the recently published article by Hajiani et al.(1) in your journal. The distribution of HCV genotypes can enable clinicians to make better decisions for treatment of HCV-infected cases. In Iran, there is a low endemicity for HCV infections(2,3) the primary high risk groups for acquiring infection are patients on hemodialysis, those with hemophilia and thalassemia, an...

In northern provinces of Iran high rates of incidence of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) enzyme deficiency have been reported and most of these patients carry one of the three common G6PD gene mutations: Mediterranean, Chatham or Cosenza. The aim of this study was to investigate prevalence of each of these mutations among neonates in Mazandaran, a northern province of Iran. Four hundre...

Inflammasomes are multi-protein signaling platforms that are primed upon sensing pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs) as well as endogenous damage-associated molecular patterns (Kolliputi et al., 2010, 2012). Once primed, a complex forms between the inflammasome sensor, an adaptor protein with a caspase recruiter domain (ASC), and caspase-1, which leads to the cleavage of pro-inflamma...

Drought induced stress is one of the most significant environmental challenges. This study was designed to evaluate the effects of drought stress on crop yield and antioxidant systems during the vegetative period of wheat. The study was carried out in a greenhouse using factorial experiment based on complete randomized block design (RCBD) in three replications in Razi University in Iran from 20...

We computationally investigate supercontinuum generation in an As2S3 solid core photonic crystal fiber (PCF) with a hexagonal cladding of air holes. With a goal of obtaining a supercontinuum output spectrum that can predict what might be seen in an experiment, we investigate the spectral and statistical behavior of a mid-infrared supercontinuum source using a large ensemble average of 106 reali...

One of the most difficult aspects in mathematical modeling and simulation is developing data to drive models and learning. This is particularly difficult when the subject involves intangible variables and concepts such as stress and perceptions that are difficult to ascribe a quantitative value to. This paper provides a description of how qualitative data collected during in depth phenomenologi...

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