background : toxoplasma gondii is an obligate intracellular parasite that infects humans at high preva-lence rates. the virulent rh strain of t. gondii is generally considered to have lost its cyst forming ca-pacity. this study performed to obtain tissue cysts in mice infected with tachyzoites of rh strain treated with sulfadiazine (sdz). it provides the opportunity to analyze the conversion of...

the efficacy of clindamycin and monensin were evaluated in the prevention of oocyst shedding of kittens with toxoplasma gondii (tehran strain). in this study, 28 healthy kittens aged 1.5 – 2 months old divided randomly into 4 groups of seven. in group 1, kittens were fed with the infected brain tissues of mice, all of seven kittens (100 %), shed oocyst, nearly 1 week after infection, which last...

background: cervical spine sustains most of thevertebral column injuries, among other injuries, the disc degeneration and damage that lead to replacement of the damaged disc with cage or artificial disc. methods: the c4 to c6 vertebrae of a normal subject and a person with interbody fusion cage were 3d modelled and then analyzed using finite element method. the results of maximum stress and str...

conclusions the results showed that, compared to participants with normal weights, physiological and thermal perceptual responses were higher in overweight participants. therefore, overweight individuals should avoid hot/dry weather conditions to decrease the amount of heat strain. results in both groups, oral temperature, heart rate, and thermal perceptual responses increased during heat expos...

Hysteresis loop curves are highly important for numerical simulations of materials deformation under cyclic loadings. The models mainly take account of only the tensile half of the stabilized cycle in hysteresis loop for identification of the constants which don’t vary with accumulation of plastic strain and strain range of the hysteresis loop. This approach may be quite erroneous particularly ...

In this study, the hot deformation processing map of AISI 304 austenitic stainless steel in two initial grain sizes of 15 and 40 μm was investigated. For this purpose, cylindrical samples were used in the hot compression test at the temperature range of 950-1100 °C and the strain rate of 0.005-0.5% s-1. At first, the relationship between the peak stress and Zener-Hollomon parameter w...