zataria multiflora (zm) is a thyme-like aromatic plant in the lamiaceae family that grows in central and southern iran. zm is extensively used as a flavor ingredient in a wide variety of foods and is used as part of popular traditional folk remedies. in the present study, zm essential oil (zmo) was obtained from zm leaves via hydro-distillation and then analyzed by gc-ms (gas chromatography-mas...

Thromb Haemost 2006; 95: 591–2 Despite major advances and novel therapeutic approaches in intensive care medicine, sepsis is still a major burden of modern medicine and the leading cause of death in non-coronary intensive care units (1). Sepsis represents a complex disease state with distinctive activation of the inflammation cascade and the coagulation system, resulting in pervasive macroand m...

Background Leukocytes linked directly and indirectly to reactive oxygen species (ROS) formation. Although leukocytospermia is defined as the presence of ≥1×106 white blood cells/mL (WBC/mL) in a semen sample, the presence of less than 1×106 WBC/mL (low-level leukocytospermia) still can produce a detectable amount of ROS, impairing sperm function and lowering the chances of pregnancy. Low concen...

PURPOSE Nitric oxide formation by nitric oxide synthase (NOS) has been implicated in vascular injury and retinal neovascularization during oxygen-induced retinopathy. However, the role of NOS in normal retinal vascular development and growth has not been studied. The purpose of these experiments was to characterize the expression of NOS in relation to vascular development and to determine the e...

Metabolic syndrome includes the following symptoms: obesity, hyperlipidemia, hypertension, insulin resistance, and cardiovascular disease. The purpose of this review is to elucidate role adipokines in regulation L-arginine-NO-synthas-NO signaling pathway pathogenesis metabolic syndrome. main questions raised are: how adipokine secretion changes, level their receptors regulated, which pathways a...