background and objectives: there is a growing trend towards investigating natural products as sources of compounds with biological effects and many researches have been carried out in order to find effective medications against many diseases. cancer is no exception and studies focusing on evaluating the effects of different materials on dna, give valuable information in cancer researches and ca...

A notable amount of medicinal plants grow in Iran and local communities in different parts of the country have developed a deep knowledge of various uses of plants during their old history. Several ethnobotanical studies have been conducted by the Traditional Medicine and Material Medica Research Center (TMRC) to investigate the use of medicinal plants by local people. Some of these studies hav...

a notable amount of medicinal plants grow in iran and local communities in different parts of the country have developed a deep knowledge of various uses of plants during their old history. several ethnobotanical studies have been conducted by the traditional medicine and material medica research center (tmrc) to investigate the use of medicinal plants by local people. some of these studies hav...

In order to investigate goiter prevalence in Boyer-Ahmad, an Iranian tribal province, 87 families were randomly selected in Yasuj township and Doruhan county. Clinical examination of the subjects disclosed 95% of females and 87% of males over 6 years of age to be goitrous. Grade 2 goiter had the highest prevalence among females. In males grade 1 b was the most prevalent. Hormonal studies o...