Four new farnesyl hydroxybenzoic acid derivatives, kuhistanols E-H (1-4), were isolated from the roots of the Uzbekistan medicinal plant Ferula kuhistanica. The structures of the new compounds were elucidated based on spectroscopic and chemical evidence.

The aim of this study was to evaluate the features of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) as well as other health problems and treatment necessities in various climatic and geographic zones of Uzbekistan. The data on 2013 patients with a confirmed diagnosis of RA were collected retrospectively. The results showed that the Khorezm and Surkhandarya regions dominated by indicators of disease activity and se...

According to increase of travel, the cases of imported echinococcosis have been increasing in Korea. The present study was undertaken to develop a serodiagnostic system for echinococcosis in Korea. For diagnosis of echinococcosis, the fluid of Echinococcus granulosus hydatid cysts was collected from naturally infected sheep in Uzbekistan. Also serum samples of infected patients who were surgica...

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com Tullgrenius afghanicus Beier, 1959 and Oratemnus afghanicus Beier, 1959 from Afghanistan, Mesatemnus cyprianus (Beier and Turk, 1952) from Cyprus, Paratemnoides insularis (Banks, 1902) from Ecuador and Turkey, Diplotemnus egregius Beier, 1959 from Afghanistan and Tajikistan, Diplotemnus insolitus Chamberlin, 1933 from Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, ...

Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) HVS-I region sequences were obtained from 47 unrelated individuals representing 10 of 12 viloyats of Uzbekistan. In addition, frequencies for five Alu insertion polymorphisms were determined for the same 47 individuals. These data were used to assess the genetic position of Uzbekistan relative to other Central Asians and, more generally, to Eurasian groups. Results sho...

Cystic echinococcosis (CE) is one of the most widespread zoonotic helminthiases, which can last an asymptomatic infection for several years. The purpose of this study was to demonstrate serum antibody prevalence of CE among asymptomatic people in Uzbekistan using ELISA. A total of 2,547 serum samples were collected, 66 from confirmed CE patients and 2,481 of patients with other diseases than CE...

The eutherian, family-level clade Zhelestidae is consistently although weakly supported in five phylogenetic analyses that we performed on all Cretaceous eutherians. Additionally in the fifth analysis, which included some placentals, Zhelestidae is placed as a stem eutherian clade rather than grouping within the crown clade Placentalia as argued in some previous studies but not others. The subf...

ABSTRACT Isolates of Puccinia triticina collected from common wheat in the Central Asia countries of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan and the Caucasus countries of Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Armenia were tested for virulence to 20 isolines of Thatcher wheat with different leaf rust resistance genes and molecular genotype at 23 simple sequence repeat (SSR) loci. After clone corre...

This study was conducted from November, 2007 to May, 2008 to evaluate the health status of the elderly and correlated factors affecting their health. We collected data from 682 individuals 65 years or older (214 male) from greater Tashkent City in Uzbekistan. The study revealed that 75.4% of the respondents were aged <75 years and that 16.8% of them were not educated. About three-quarters of th...

he financial crises that swept across Asia and Russia in 1998 are reshaping the leadership politics of the former communist countries. In Russia, the financial crisis has marginalized President Boris Yeltsin and brought to the political forefront a previously disenfranchised coalition of traditionalists. Ukraine’s political leadership is leaning in the direction of Europe. The leaders of the co...