Abbas Bahador, Safia Khalil, Babak Pourakbari, Roghayeh Ghorbanzadeh, Mohammad Zaman Kassaee, Solmaz Ohadian Moghadam, Azad Khaledi & Ahmad Sodagar·Annual Research & Review in Biology·2014
Aims: The activities of cariogenic bacteria in biofilm on acrylic baseplates of removable orthodontic appliances and partial denture contribute to dental caries, inflammation of gingiva and periodontal disease. This in vitro study evaluates the photocatalytic antimicrobial activi...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/7166
Aims: Nowadays, computational intelligence is frequently used in diagnosis and determination of the severity of various diseases. In fact, different tools of computational intelligence help physicians as an assistant to diagnose with fewer errors. In this paper, a fuzzy Hopfield...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/9183
Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) residual levels are available several commercially dry fishes. So these fishes were detected and determinate the contamination status of dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT). The most popular dry fish-Ribbon fish (Lepturacanthus savala), Chi...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/9043
Removal of acid red 37 from aqueous solutions has been studied using red mud waste material after its modification with laccase from Russulaceae (Lactarius volemus). Laccase was purified by using saturated precipitate (NH4)2SO4, diethylaminoethyl celulose (DEAE-cellulose) and imm...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/10080
Aims: The results will be used to design and construct a collecting device, specially the main sucking part. Study Design: In order to determine the physical properties of autumn leaves, twenty leaves from each tree of maple, bitter orange, oak, boxwood, yellow poplar, and brown...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/9647
Yellow or stripe rust is one of the most important and destructive wheat diseases all over the world. The best strategy to control this disease is genetic resistance through combining several resistance genes which results in achieving long lasting resistance. Marker assisted sel...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/9821
Eghtedary Naeini Abdolreza, Etedali Fatemeh, Mortazavi Seyed Elyas, Sobhani Najafabadi Ahmad, Golabadi Maryam, Gharyazi Behzad & Malboobi Mohammad Ali·Annual Research & Review in Biology·2014
Aim: This research can be used to design and subsequently to study stable- tissues- specific gene expression in other plants, and potentially may be used in altering plants with C3 photosystem into C4 through genetics. Study design: In silico analysis by bioinformatics tools was...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/9876
Aims: This work was for the first time; undertaken to study the effect of different explant types and plant growth regulators on the callus induction and plant regeneration in both Satureja species. This protocol can be successfully employed for the large-scale multiplication and...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/7938
Aim: The aim of this study was to determine the hypoglycaemic and hypolipidaemic effects of the aqueous leaf extract of Tithonia diversifolia in Wistar albino rats. Methodology: Aqueous extracts of the leaves of Tithonia diversifolia was screened for hypoglycemic and hypolipidaem...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/6142
Biosensors have emerged as new alternatives in environmental toxicity assessment. In the development of biosensors for heavy metals detection in environment, whole cells are highly favored as these cells are able to reflect the real toxicity effects of heavy metals to living orga...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/9472
Aims: This study was designed to investigate the chemical composition (gas chromatography/mass spectrometry [GC-MS]) and antibacterial (Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria) activities of essential oils extracted from aerial parts of two medicinal plants, Mentha longifolia L....
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/7899
Aims: Recent studies have demonstrated that all molecules of the respiratory chain are present in the photoreceptor outer segment (see Calzia et al., Biol Cell 2013). Furthermore, our group (Roehlecke et al., PLoS One 2013) could show that, after blue light stress of the retina,...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/9550
L. Velázquez, M. Téllez-Téllez, R. Díaz, M. D. Bibbins-Martínez, O. Loera, C. Sánchez, S. Tlecuitl-Beristain & G. Díaz-Godínez·Annual Research & Review in Biology·2014
Aims: Effect of culture medium pH (3.5, 4.5, 6.5, 7.5 and 8.5) on the activity and number of laccase isoenzymes of Pleurotus ostreatus grown in solid-state fermentation using polyurethane foam as a support was evaluated. Methodology: Pleurotus ostreatus was grown in solid-state f...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/10016
Praveen Kumar Devarbhavi, Kishan Ashok Bhagwat, Tammarao Patil, C. R. Vasudeva Murthy & Srikumar Chakravarthi·Annual Research & Review in Biology·2014
There have been reports of several developmental anomalies of the pancreas in the past two decades, and among these, one of the rare entities is dorsal agenesis of the pancreas [1]. Our report is on an 18-year-old male patient who presented with total agenesis of the dorsal pancr...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/9509
In this study, the seasonal variation on selected major minerals (Ca, P, K, Mg) and proximate composition of Mesopotamian catfish (Silurus triostegus Heckel, 1843) were investigated. Fish samples used in this research were obtained seasonally from Atatürk Dam Lake within the boun...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/9056