Dothiorella and Spencermartinsia are two botryosphaeriaceous genera with dark 2-celled conidia and found in parasitic, saprophytic or endophytic association with various woody host plants. Based on ITS and EF1-α sequence data and morphology, eight new species are described from Iran, New Zealand, Portugal and Spain. Of these, five species are placed in Dothiorella, namely D. iranica, D. parva, ...

Nitric oxide (NO) is implicated as an important mediator of, or intermediary in, inflammation, immunity and neurotransmission. In the kidney, NO is involved in haemodynamic regulation, control of vascular tone and tubular function. Formation of oxygen-derived free radicals (OFR) have been documented in renal ischaemiareperfusion before. In this study, we investigated the significance of NO form...

Bromus sect. Triniusa is revised in Khorassan based on the new taxonomic concepts of Bromus danthoniae complex group and a remarkable herbarium material collected from Khorassan (Kopetdagh, northeastern Iran), as the main center of its diversity. Bromus turcomanicus, a narrow endemic species in central Kopetdagh hitherto known only from the type locality in southern Turkmenistan, is newly recor...

Early recognition of Gestational Trophoblastic Neoplasm (GTN) will maximize the chances of cure with chemotherapy but some patients present with many different symptoms months or even years after the causative pregnancy making diagnosis difficult. Clinicians should be aware of the possibility of GTN in any reproductive age woman with bizarre central nervous system, gastrointestinal, pulmonary s...

Abdominal pregnancies are very uncommon and are misdiagnosed in half of the cases. We describe a case of abdominal pregnancy, which was misdiagnosed as pregnancy in a bicornuate uterus. The patient underwent operation urgently because of unstable hemodynamics. The spontaneously separated placenta and its bleeding site in the Douglas pouch were seen. We could not use sutures for hemostasis so, t...

The genus Dracocephalum L. (Lamiaceae) with about 60 to 70 species is a in the sub-tribe Nepetinae, tribe Mentheae of Lamiaceae family, native temperate regions Northern Hemisphere. They are mostly perennial herbs, and rarely annual. Flora Iranica reports 8 Iran 10 out which, 4 endemic. We collected 7 studied delimitation relationship by morphometric anatomic results. were efficiently delimited...