Volume & Issue: Volume 21, Issue 11, November 2018, Pages 1091-1197 

Review Article

Saffron (Crocus sativus) petal as a new pharmacological target: a review

Pages 1091-1099

Azar Hosseini; Bibi Marjan Razavi; Hossein Hosseinzadeh


Effects of assisted oocyte activation with calcium- ionophore and strontium chloride on in vitro ICSI outcomes

Pages 1109-1117

Marziyeh Norozi-Hafshejani; Marziyeh Tavalaee; Leila Azadi; Mehrnoosh Bahadorani; Mohamad Hosein Nasr Esfahani


The application of titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanoparticles in the photo-thermal therapy of melanoma cancer model

Pages 1133-1139

Mohammad Ali Behnam; Farzin Emami; Zahra Sobhani; Amir Reza Dehghanian


Serum-based metabolic alterations in patients with papillary thyroid carcinoma unveiled by non-targeted 1H-NMR metabolomics approach

Pages 1140-1147

Reyhaneh Farrokhi Yekta; Mostafa Rezaei Tavirani; Afsaneh Arefi Oskuie; Mohamad Reza Mohajeri Tehrani; Ahmad Reza Soroush; Alireza Akbarzadeh Baghban


Interaction of aquaporin 4 and N-methyl-D-aspartate NMDA receptor 1 in traumatic brain injury of rats

Pages 1148-1154

Li-Hua Chen; Hong-Tian Zhang; Ru-Xiang Xu; Wen-De Li; Hao Zhao; Yi Yang; Kai Sun


Generation of motor neurons from human amygdala-derived neural stem-like cells

Pages 1155-1160

Sepideh Ghasemi; Hadi Aligholi; Pir Hossain Koulivand; Maryam Jafaraian; Hassan Hosseini Ravandi; Maryam Khaleghi Ghadiri; Ali Gorji


Silencing of rhomboid domain containing 1 to inhibit the metastasis of human breast cancer cells in vitro

Pages 1161-1166

Chunjun Huang; Xiaochun Ji; Yinyin Peng; Minghua Wu; Weizhu Wu; Yong Luo; Gaoxiang Cheng; Ye Zhu


Combination of metformin and phenformin synergistically inhibits proliferation and hTERT expression in human breast cancer cells

Pages 1167-1173

Davoud Jafari-Gharabaghlou; Younes Pilehvar-Soltanahmadi; Mehdi Dadashpour; Ali Mota; Soheila Vafajouy-Jamshidi; Leila Faramarzi; Sara Rasouli; Nosratollah Zarghami


Iranian crack induces hepatic injury through mitogen-activated protein kinase pathway in the liver of Wistar rat

Pages 1179-1185

Aliasghar Parvaresh Anbar; Tayyebeh Piran; Mehrdad Farhadi; Pouran karimi


Short Communication

The effects of crocetin, extracted from saffron, in chemotherapy against the incidence of multiple drug resistance phenotype

Pages 1192-1197

Navid Neyshaburinezhad; Maryam Hashemi; Mohammad Ramezani; Sepideh Arabzadeh; Javad Behravan; Fatemeh Kalalinia