Traditional medicine
bahareh amin; LEILA aldaghi; hamideh moalemzadeh; fatemeh soltani
Volume 28, Issue 2 , May and June 2021, , Pages 207-213
Abstract
Introduction: Breast cancer is the second common cancer in women at worldwide. Furthermore, patients with breast cancer generally use complementary and integrative medicine such as homeopathy. It has been shown that homeopathic remedies such as Sepia, Phosphorus and Pulsatilla have great effects ...
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Introduction: Breast cancer is the second common cancer in women at worldwide. Furthermore, patients with breast cancer generally use complementary and integrative medicine such as homeopathy. It has been shown that homeopathic remedies such as Sepia, Phosphorus and Pulsatilla have great effects in the various diseases such as some of the cancers. However, the cytotoxicity effects of these compounds have not been studied for breast cancer cell lines such asMCF-7. Hence, the aim of this study was to investigate the cytotoxic effects of these homeopathic remedies on breast cancer cell line. Materials & Methods: Breast cancer cells (MCF-7) were cultured in DMEM medium and treated with different potencies (30 and 200) of remedies for 24, 48 and 72 h. Cell viability was determined by MTT assay. Results: The findings indicate that none of the tested compounds had cytotoxicity effect on MCF-7 cancer cells. Conclusion: This study shows that Sepia, Phosphorus and Pulsatilla as the three of homeopathic remedies have not in vitro cytotoxic effects on breast cancer cell line, and it seems that further studies on different cell lines and also in vivo studies are needed to confirm these findings.
Physical Education
Nafise Mofidi Sadr; Roya Askari; Amir Hossein Haghighi
Volume 26, Issue 2 , July and August 2019, , Pages 203-211
Abstract
Aim: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of 12 weeks of combined exercise on bone mineral density and some blood parameters in postmenopausal women with overweight.Materials and Methods: 29 inactive postmenopausal women with an age range of 58 to 46 years participated in this study. ...
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Aim: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of 12 weeks of combined exercise on bone mineral density and some blood parameters in postmenopausal women with overweight.Materials and Methods: 29 inactive postmenopausal women with an age range of 58 to 46 years participated in this study. Subjects were placed in one of the two exercises (resistance-aerobic) and control (without exercise). Before and after the training period, weight, body mass index, fat percentage, bone density of the lumbar vertebrae and femoral head (in dexas), calcium and serum phosphorus were measured. The exercise protocol included upper and lower resistance exercises in 3 sets with 12 to 8 repetitions, and aerobic training including running and waving alternately for 12 weeks and 3 sessions per week. The data with normal distribution were analyzed using ANOVA and T-Paired methods and data without normal distribution using KruskalWallis and Wilcoxon. Finding: The experimental group showed a significant increase in serum calcium, bone density in the lumbar spine and neck (P
Mansur Zarrabi; Mohammad Noori Sepehr; Mohammad Shakak; Gholamreza Ebrahimzadeh; Mahmoud Taghavi
Volume 24, Issue 4 , July and August 2017, , Pages 239-248
Abstract
Background & Objectives: Phosphorus is a common ion in wastewater treatment effluents, but excess amount of phosphate concentration in the effluent discharge accelerates eutrophication that affects many natural water bodies. Eutrophication of the water bodies is one of the most important environmental ...
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Background & Objectives: Phosphorus is a common ion in wastewater treatment effluents, but excess amount of phosphate concentration in the effluent discharge accelerates eutrophication that affects many natural water bodies. Eutrophication of the water bodies is one of the most important environmental problems. Eutrophication can lead to abundant development of aquatic plants, growth of algae and disturbance to the balance of organisms present in the water. Therefore, in present work, natural and modified yellow and red soil with EDTA was used for removal of phosphorous from aqueous solution.
Materials & Methods: All experiments were conducted in a batch system. Natural yellow and red soil and its modified one with EDTA were used as adsorbent for removal of phosphorous from aqueous solutions. Effect of various experimental parameters such as pH, initial phosphorus concentration, contact time and adsorbent mass were investigated.
Results: Results showed that the removal efficiency was increased by increasing in contact time, adsorbent mass and initial phosphorus concentration. Higher removal efficiency was observed at 150 min contact time, 10 g/L adsorbent mass, 50 mg/L phosphorus concentration and pH 5. At these conditions, about 65% of phosphorus were removed by natural soils, while 78% was removed by modified adsorbents.
Conclusion: The results of present work well demonstrate that, due to higher content of calcium, red and yellow soil is capable for adsorption of phosphorus and if they be modified with EDTA, their efficiency will be improved remarkably.