certain compounds of plants such as essential oils, with insecticidal properties have been considered as alternatives to chemical pesticides for pest control. this study reports the fumigant toxicity of citrus reticulata blanco (rutaceae) peel essential oils against stored-product insect pest, red flour beetle, tribolium castaneum herbst (tenebrionidae) adults. experiment was carried out at 27 ...

ammonium ions wastewater pollution has become one of the most serious environmental problems today. the treatment of ammonium ions is a special concern due to their recalcitrance and persistence in the environment. in recent years, various methods for ammonium ion removal from wastewater have been extensively studied. this paper reviews the current methods that have been used to treat ammonium ...

widespread use of pharmaceuticals has resulted in mixture concentrations ranging from mg/l in effluent to µg/l concentrations in surface water. in a 2008 study, 13 pharmaceuticals, ranging in amounts from 0.0028 to 0.1757 µg/l, were identified in the tennessee river, usa and its tributaries. in order to address the need for risk assessment of environmentally relevant pharmaceutical mixtures, da...

background: diazoxide is the main therapeutic agent for congenital hyperinsulinism. the drug is generally well tolerated; however, in this report severe adverse effects including heart failure (hf) and pulmonary hypertension (ph) in an infant are reported.case report: a sixteen-day male infant with persistent hypoglycemia and with diagnosis of congenital hyperinsulinism underwent near total pan...

background and purpose: occular toxicity is one of the most important complications of hydroxychloroquine. not any type of treatment has so far been found and recommended for this disorder. the purpose of this study was to report some characteristics of patients with hydroxychloroquine induced retinopathy.    materials and methods: from 107 patients with rheumatoid arthritis (ra) and/or systemi...

objective: phototoxicity is a kind of dermatitis that is activated by exposure to ultraviolet light following the administration of some drugs or natural products. artemia salina (a. salina) (brine shrimp) has been effectively applied for toxicity testing and is perfect for biological screening of many chemicals for simultaneous evaluation of toxicity and phototoxicity. the objective of this st...

objective: pinus eldarica (p. eldarica) is one of the most common pines in iran which has various bioactive constituents and different uses in traditional medicine. since there is no documented evidence for p. eldarica safety, the acute and sub-acute oral toxicities of hydroalcoholic extract of p. eldarica bark were investigated in male and female wistar rats in this study. materials and method...

we describe a patient with hypercalcemia associated with the injection of high doses vitamin d as supplement for a period of six months. a 76-year-old woman had been taking an intramuscular injection of vitamin d 300,000 iu every ten days for six months. she was hospitalized with symptoms of hypercalcemia: chronic constipation, unstable gait, a chronic generalized musculoskeletal pain and incre...

the aim of this study was to examine the adverse effects of zinc nanoparticles on hematological indices of trout and investigate the improvement of these indices after vitamin c treatments. this study assesses the protective role of vitamin c in fish exposed to zno nps. two concentrations of zno-nps (40 and 80 mg l-1) and two doses of vitamin c (400 and 800 mg per kg of feed) were used to treat...

anethum graveolens l. (dill) is used widely in asian food and folk medicine but its safety profile for further clinical studies has remained unclear. after administration of total hydroalcoholic extract to mice in acute, subacute and subchronic treatment periods, toxic responses were recoreded by clinical, biochemical, hematological and pathological examinations. doses up to 2000 mg/kg in acute...