Tikrit Journal of Pure Science

The present study was conducted to identify the histological effects of the aqueous extract of saffron flower on ovaries and oviducts of the adult female mouse at doses of 15, 30 and 60 mg/kg of body weight (b.w.).for the periods 7,15 and 30 days, respectively and once a day. Behavioral changes were include the abnormal hyperactivity, irritability followed by introversion and reduction of motor activity, as well as loss of appetite for food and drinking water for several hours. The results showed histopathological changes of mice ovaries at a dose of 15 mg /kg of B.W. for the above periods a slight increase in primordial follicles, congestion of blood vessels, necrosis and degeneration. At a dose of 30 mg/kg. there was slight deposition of hyaline material, deposition of hemosiderin dye, congestion and increase of primordial follicles numbers, while at a dose of 60 mg/kg lymphatic cells infiltration were observed, with some ovarian stromal cells decaying. while the oviduct, and for the above periods changes included thickening of canal wall, endothelial cells degeneration and blood vessel congestion in the muscular area at a dose of 15 mg/kg, increased flattening of the mucosal folds also was observed. At a dose of 30mg /kg. an increased damage with increased blood vessels congestion, fibrosis of oviduct wall and degeneration of the external muscle layer of the oviduct at a dose of 60 mg /kg was obvious.

The sample were collected from different environments, growth and diagnosis of Cyanobacteria Species Synechocystis pevalekii was conducted in AL-Dour district / Salahaldeen governorate rocks having algae taken from the edge of the river, a water sample and mud sample from the river, and a soil sample from a planted land. The medium BG11 was used for its growth and measuring the daily increase of growth and chlorophyll these indicators were compared during their growth in four modified media of BG11 which were BG11+0.5g/L NaNo3, BG11+0.006g/L (NH4)5[Fe(C6H4O7)2]2H2S and BG11+0.1µ/L MoO3 and the media BG11 was subjecte to all the mentioned additions, and the last was the medium BG11 was subjecte to all the mentioned additions the most effective in increasing daily growth and chlorophyll. Its bio- products were also extracted and the inhibitory efficacy of biological products of Synechocystis pevalekii was selected for species of bacteria isolated from wounds and urinary tract E.coli, Klebseilla pneumoniae, Staphylococcus aureus, Staphylococcus epidermidis with the concentrations 10,000 , 7000 , 5000, 3000 , 2000 , 1000 µgm/ml . The concentration 10,000 µgm/ml showed a clear inhibitory effect E.coli 12mm, klebseilla pneumonia 5.5mm, Staphylococcus aureus 14 mm, Staphylococcus epidermidis 15.5mm whereas the concentration 1000 µgm/ml did not show any inhibitory effect for the growth of isolated bacteria under study. The other concentrations showed varied effects. The active compound of the bio-product for the species of Synechocystis pevalekii was diagnosed by the device GC-Mass as a N-di-Alanylglycin. In addition the IR device was used and showed the active groups the alkanes and the amides and alkines and aldehydes and aminos.

The study of the water of five wells in the city of Tikrit was conducted for the period from December 2016 to March 2017 where its ages ranged from 6 to 27 years and the depths between 90 - 120 m and are all used to irrigate crops and for washing. Some physical and chemical properties were also studied, temperature which ranged between 22-23.6 C° and electrical conductivity which ranged between1742.5-3002.5 microsimens / cm and the total alkaline which ranged between 53-193 mg / L, as well as many other properties total hardness, calcium and magnesium hardness, pH, sodium and potassium ions. The results proved that the well waters were hard and ranged between 1055.7- 1257.48 mg / L.

This study included (100) samples of women used Steroidal Contraceptive types in (Samarra General Hospital) (20) blood samples pulled from healthy women as Control sample. The samples were distribted into three groups; the first group:- (40) women used a combined oral contraceptive the second group: -(40) women used Combined injectable contraceptive. The third group:- (20) was the women not used contraceptiv (control). The results of the study indicated high significant decrease in the Concentration of the Uric acid (P <0.001) and a high increment in the Concentration of the creatinine at level (P <0.001) in approach to the control group. The results revealed high significant decrease in the proteins of the blood (Total protein, Albumin) (P <0.001)when compared to control cluster. while the results showed a rise in the concentration of Cholesterol, Triglyceride, LDL (P <0.001) effective decrease in the HDL when compared to the control group.

This study was examined the possibility of pomegranate peel residue (PPR) (which remains after extraction of antioxidants (phenolics)) for removing polluted cyanide ions from aqueous solutions using several operational factors via adsorption technique. The operational factors studied included initial concentration of (CN-), pH of aqueous solution, flowrate of the aqueous solution inside the adsorption unit, height of adsorption media and time of treatment. By means of changing the aforementioned variables within particular empirical ranges, the best operational conditions were identified that gave the highest percentage removal of cyanide ion from aqueous solutions which reach to 95.75%. The samples of PPR remaining after completion the adsorption process explained above have been used to prepare an effective toxic material for rodents. The lethal effect of this cheap rodenticide was investigated using laboratory rats of type Sprague Dawley (which has the scientific name Rattus rattus) as a case study. These toxic residues exhibited a fatal effect on this type of rats depending on the calculated half lethal dose (LD50) of its which was compared with the (LD50) mentioned in literature and scientific references and showed that it was within the required range. In this method, more than one type of toxic and non-toxic wastes was disposed by simple, benefit, non-cost and environment friendly way. This way represents by eliminating the cyanide ions from aqueous solutions to minimum possible concentration using non-valuable agricultural wastes (PPR) and in the same time preparing a cheap and active rodenticide according to lethal dose (LD50) calculated accessing to zero residue level (ZRL

This study aimed to control lesser grain borer Rhizopertha dominica via using of Zingier officinale (ginger) and Helianthus annuus (sunflower) oils as protectant of Tritium spp. The inhibition rates were 38.00, 28.98, 22.67 and 4.60% respectively when the wheat treated by 0.5, 1, 1.5and 2% of sunflower oil while the inhibition rates were 35.50, 28.00, 7.25 and 3.25% respectively when the wheat treated by the same concentrations of Z. officinale oil. The damage assessments were decreased while increasing the concentration of the oils, the H. annuus oil is more protectant than Z. officinale oil in 2%. Approximately the two plant oils caused same damage percentage when the wheat treated by 1% during storage. To sum up, the results strengthen the possibility of using the plant oils for the management this insect

This study was conducted to determine the phenolic compounds that may be utilized as chemotaxonomic study to identify some phenolic compounds concentration that are useful for pharmaceutical purposes from 5 taxa belongs to the Brassicaceae family which are; Cardaria draba (L.) Desv., Lepidum aucheri Boiss., Sisymbrium irio L., Sisymbrium officinale (L.) Scop., and Sisymbrium septulatum DC. Leaves powder of these taxa were collected and analyzed by High-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). The results identified 9 phenolic compounds, chlorogenic acid, cinnamic acid, ferulic acid, genstic acid, kaempferol, p-coumaric acid, protocatechuic acid, sinapic acid, and vanillic acid. The results showed that the genus Lepidium aucheri had the highest concentration of 4 phenolic compounds, cinnamic acid, genstic acid, p-coumaric acid, and sinapic acid with concentration of (37.2, 80.79, 62.91, and 37.10µg/ ml) respectively. On the other hand, the genus Cardaria draba showed the lowest concentration of 3 phenolic compounds, cinnamic acid, p- coumaric acid, and protocatechuic acid, and doesn't have 2 phenolic compounds, genstic acid and kaempferol. This variation in the phenolic concentrations might be due to the genotype and plant growth stage differences. The results of this study provide a source for bioactive compounds to future studies.

A field experiment was conducted in the nursery of the Tikrit University/Faculty of Agriculture, the agricultural season 2013 on lemon grass plant. The Experiment was design with randomized complete block design (RCBD). the Experiment contained two factors, the first one is a mixture of some micro nutrients and three levels ; namely, non-spray treatment (T0), spraying treatment with 50 mg.L-1 Fe + 25 mg.L-1 Cu +25 mg.L-1 Zn (T1), and spraying treatment with 100 mg.L-1 Fe + 50 mg.L-1 Cu +50 mg.L-1 Zn (T2). the second factor is plant Growth regulators with four levels first no plant Growth regulators labeled as (A0), second, spraying in with IAA with concentration of 150 mg.L-1. labeled as (A1), spraying in with GA3 with concentration of 150 mg.L-1. labeled as (A2) ,and spraying with mixture of IAA + GA3 of 150 + 150 mg.L-1 concentration labeled as (A3) with three replications. the result showed that the treatment of (T2A3) spraying with mixture of micro nutrients and spraying with mixture of Auxin and Gibberellin significant differences in all of the characteristics of the vegetative growth. this resulted the plant height 162.41cm, number of leaves 52.87 leaf.plant-1, leaf area 3665.19 cm2, dry weight 173.09 gm.plant-1, and leaf content of total chlorophyll 8.350 mg.gm-1.
There were also significant differences amongst the treatments of the interference in the increase of concentrations of the nutrients in the leaves. the treatments (T2A3), (T2A2),and (T2A1) exceeded the other treatments and the non-adding treatment while there were no significant differences amongst the above mentioned treatments in some of the concentrations of the nutrients. the interference treatment (T2A3) between the spraying with mixture of micro nutrients and spraying with mixture of (Auxin and Gibberellin) resulted the highest concentration of nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, magnesium, Iron, Copper, and zinc. the concentration of these elements are 2.83 %, 0.390 %, 2.73 %, 0.892 mg.L-1, 84.20 mg.L-1, 17.73 mg.L-1, 58.82 mg.L-1 respectively. There are positive differences in the content 0f the volatile oil of the active compounds amongst the interference treatments. the treatments (T2A3), (T2A2), (T2A1), and (T1A3) resulted the highest content of the active compounds compared to the rest of the treatments and the non-adding treatment. there were no significant differences amongst the above mentioned treatments. the interference treatment (T2A3) between the spraying with mixture of micro nutrients and spraying with a mixture of (Auxine and Gibberellin) resulted the highest rate of percentage, Density oil, Specific gravity, and Refractive index 0.834, 0.858, 0.845, 1.263 respectively.

This study was conducted to investigate if silymarin can prevent the adverse effect of oxidative stress induced by carbon tetrachloride(CCl4) on some characters of male rat reproductive system. Twenty male albino rats were divided into 4 groups, 5 for each included, control group, CCl4 group, silymarin group and silymarin plus CCl4 group. Groups with silymarin received dose (150mg/kg) and group with CCl4 received (3ml/kg) at the end of experiment. The period of the study was 35 days. CCl4 can induce male reproductive toxicity through damage testis structure, weights, reduction in epididymis, sperm count, morphology, viability and motility. Silymarin plays its antioxidant role with scavenging free radical resulted by CCl4 and showed significant increasing in body and testis weight, normal sperms counting and vital sperms in compared to CCl4 group.

The present study aimed to revealing and identifying some of phytochemical compounds, bioactive fatty acids and antioxidants for powder of leaves and seeds of Moringa oleifera that cultivated in Iraq which have been many identified by using modern techniques such as gas chromatography mass spectrometry (GC-MS) technique. And then study and test the preventive and Therapy effects for powder of leaves and seeds in present study against hepatotoxicity that induced by carbon tetrachloride (CCl4) and against jaundice. These effects were tested by measuring total bilirubin concentrations of total bilirubin and γ-glutamyl transferase (GGT) in serum of normal male rats, exposed to CCl4 and that treated with powder of leaves and seeds of Moringa oleifera along the period of experiment (30) days, used (20) albino male rats divide to (4) groups, that is meaning (5) rats for each group. The rats group that exposed to CCl4 caused a significant increase (P<0.05) in concentrations of total bilirubin and GGT enzyme in comparison with normal control group. Whereas the animals which exposed to CCl4 then treated with powder of leaves and seeds of Moringa oleifera lead to significant decrease (P<0.05) in total bilirubin and GGT enzyme concentration in comparison with the group that exposed to CCl4 only. It could be concluded of this study that using powder of leaves and seeds of Moringa oleifera may be have Preventive and therapeutic effects against damage and hepatotoxicity, subsequently, anti-jaundice activity through its nutritional and antioxidant influences for remove of free radicals and repairing cellular and tissues from toxic damage

Introduction: The severity of chronic renal failure (CRF) classified by professional guidelines in five stages, stage 5 is a severe illness often called end stage kidney failure or end stage renal disease (ESRD), dialysis may be used for this stage. Dialysis treatments replace some of these functions through diffusion (waste removal) and ultrafiltration (fluid removal). Hemodialysis, is a process of purifying the blood, when the kidneys are not working normally. It is one of three renal replacement therapies (the other two being peritoneal dialysis and renal transplant).
Materials and Methods: The samples of this study consists of 80 patients (42 males, 38 females) and 85 healthy individuals (43 males, 42 females) from (20 - 70) years old of age. Serum paraoxonase-1 (PON1), `5-nucleatidase, blood urea ( BU), serum creatinine Cr, serum iron (Fe), serum total iron binding capacity (TIBC), Serum feritin, serum amylase activity and serum lipase activity were determined. Some hematological parameters includes packed cell volume (PCV), hemoglobin (Hb), white blood cells count (WBCs), red blood cell count (RBCs) were measured, the erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR), Body mass index (BMI) and creatinine clearance Ccl were also measured.
Results: Decreased levels of some enzymes activity and some biochemical and hematological parameters and increased others in continuous and regular hemodialysis patients in Kirkuk city. Blood urea and serum creatinine showed significant increased (P˂0.05) in their levels, while the creatinine clearance was significantly decreased (P˂0.05) in patients with continuous hemodialysis patients when compared to those of controls. In the present study; there was significant decreased (P˂0.05) in PON-1 in patients when compared to those of controls. However, the serum`5-NT, amylase and lipase activities were significantly increased (P ˂ 0.05) in these patients when compared with serum of normal individuals. In the present study; there was significant decreased in Fe and TIBC concentrations in the serum of patients when compared to those of healthy control individuals (P˂0.05). While the serum ferritin was significantly increased (P˂0.05) in these patients as compared to the controls. In the present study; there was significant decreased (P ˂ 0.05) in Hb and PCV and RBCs concentrations inthese patients when compared to those of controls. While WBCs and ESR was significantly increased (P˂0.05) in these patients as compared to the controls.
Conclusion: Serum paraoxonase PON -1 activity is the most commonly affected than other biochemical parameters in continuous hemodialysis patients. Anemia, pancreatitis are the common and often an early complication of chronic renal diseases.

Back ground: many researches about urinary tract infection has been conducted on adults but very little has been done on children. Therefore, this research is novel in Salahaddin city-Iraq.
Urinary tract infection is a bacterial infection that affects part of the urinary tract. It affects the lower urinary tract as well as upper urinary tract. It is characterized by painful urination, urge to urinate or sometimes frequent urination. Other symptoms include fever in addition to flank pains.
Bacteria infections cause a variety of changes in lipid profile concentrations by generating free radicals. Free radicals are reactive species generated by biochemical redox interactions that occur as a part of normal cell metabolism. These free radicals may cause lipid peroxidation and damage cellular structures of organism particularly erythrocytes and endothelium. Lipid peroxidation are free radicals mediated chain of reaction that, once initiated, results in oxidative deterioration of polyunsaturated lipids. The most common goal are components of biological membrane. When propagated in biological membranes, these reaction can be initiated or enhanced by a number of toxic products, including endoperoxides and aldehydes.
Aim: The aims of this study were to evaluate the lipid profile of the children in acute phase of urinary tract infections.
Methodology: Case-control study was designed to evaluate the lipid profile change in children with lower UTI. The study was performed on 130 children with ages between (4 – 12) years, 90 children with lower UTI (34.4% male) and (65.6% female,) and 40 control (45.0% male) and (55.0% female) in pediatric department of Salahaddin Teaching hospital from May 2017 till October 2017. The data were analyzed through the SPSS V.23 application, descriptive data analysis was done through frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation in addition to T-test to compare results.
Results: The results showed there was a significant decreased in the levels of Cholesterol, LDL, and HDL when compared to control group (144.02±17.69, 75.76±12.695, and 44.66±8.742 vs 167.65±13.13, 89.73±13.45, and 60.95±6.26 respectively), while there were a significant increase in triglycerides and VLDL in study group when compared to control group (118.03±18.66, and 23.56±3.76 vs 85.95±10.25, and 17.28±2.063 respectively).
Conclusion: These observation shows that low levels of lipid, particularly total cholesterol, low density lipoprotein (LDL), high density lipoprotein (HDL) and increased triglycerides (TG) probably be associated with urinary tract infections. Hence, the change in lipid profile could probably serve as indicators of urinary tract infection.

This study includes determination Montelukast sodium by using flow injection chemiluminescence technique, the optimum concentrations were (150) ppm of magnesum ion, (5×10-4) M luminol, (0.001) M hydrogen peroxide, linearity of concetraction (0.1-0.001) M that give the highest luminescence intensity, and correlation cofficient was (0.9054), The relative standard deviation RSD% (2.3) and detection limit (0.0001) M and relative error (0.018) ,the percent recovery (97%).

This research deals with the geometry of Khalakan Anticline by using field data. The anticline is located in NE Iraq, within the High Folded Zone of the Iraqi Western Zagros Fold – Thrust Belt where the southwestern limb of it represents the boundary between the Low and High folded zones. The age of the exposed rocks in the study area ranges from Cretaceous to Late Pliocene. Qamchuqa and Kometan formations expose in the two limbs as oldest rocks, while the youngest rocks in the northeastern limb are covered by Dokan Conglomerate. Consequently the fold geometry was determined by the measured field data of Qamchuqa and Kometan formations only. Khalakan anticline was described as asymmetrical and overturned fold, with northeastern vergency, where the mean attitude of the NE limb is 220 ᴏ/89 ᴏ and the mean attitude of the SW limb is 219 ᴏ/55° in terms of dip direction and dip amount. The attitude the fold axis in terms of trend and plunge is 130°/1°, the attitude of the axial plane is 220°/72° in terms of dip direction and dip amount, the interlimb angle is 34°, consequently the fold was classified as Close Fold.

In a previous study, a new design of a magnetic objective lens had been chosen among five new designs as the preferred one. Both of the iron shroud and polepiece bore diameters of the preselected lens have been changed and studied in this work to improve its magnetic and optical properties. An extensive investigation has been done to analyze the magnetic field distribution, magnetic flux density, and optical properties for each model using the finite element method (FEM) with the computer-aided programs. All the analyses have been carried out at the same coil excitation (NI = 10 kA.t). The new improved design yield here will be prepared to fabrication to be used as an objective lens for the SEM.

Chemical spray pyrolysis technique was used at temperature 250˚C with annealing temperature at 400C˚( for 1hour) to deposition tungsten oxide thin film with different doping concentration of Au nanoparticle (0, 10, 20, 30 and 40) wt.% on glass substrate with thickness about 100 nm. The structural and electrical properties were investigated. The structure properties shows that the films at substrate by x-ray diffraction (XRD) temperature (250˚C) was amorphous structure while at annealing temperature have a polycrystalline structure with the preferred orientation of (200) , all the samples have a hexagonal structure for WO3 and Au gold nanoparticles have a cubic structure .The mechanisms of dc-conductivity of un-doped WO3 and doped with Au (10,20,30 and 40) wt.% thin films at the range (303 to 473) K have been discussed , there is decrease in conductivity with the increase in the doping concentration and hall measurements show that all films have a negative hall coefficient and nH increases with the increase of Au dopant ratio and decreasing in carrier mobility (μH) with increasing of Au .

Aluminum and its alloys normally solidify in a columnar structure according to directionally slow cooling rate which results in decreasing the mechanical strength. Aluminum has a huge tendency to unite with oxygen to form oxide film on its surface, offers of it excellent resistance to corrosion and provides years of maintenance-free service and offered it excellent corrosion resistance and spare a lot of years without maintenance. Because of the aluminum and its alloys in fact work applications. Study was carried out on the coppers impact in addition to pure aluminum were six different Al-Cu alloys of (1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6) wt% Cu content were prepared and experimentally tested in acidic and alkaline medium. As in general the increase in the percentages of copper led to increased total corrosion rates of the samples submerged in corrosive medium. From obtained results has been reached that the corrosion rate of the alloy which 6%Cu content was (0.02585MPY) higher than the corrosion rate of the alloy of the 1%Cu content where it was (0.00081MPY) were the two alloys submerged in acidic medium, while the corrosion of the alloy 6%Cu was (0.505414MPY) higher than the from the corrosion rate of 1%Cu which it was (0.433369MPY) were the two alloys submerged in alkali medium. As was attained that the corrosion rates in the alkaline medium were higher in acidic medium corrosion rates.

This paper suggested a de-noising algorithm used in grayscale images. As long as the noisy image does not give the desired view of its features, de-noising is required. The algorithm is based on block matching and wavelet transformation. Euclidean distance for blocks similarity is exploited, which demonstrate more accurate in finding similar blocks depending on soft thresholding. Regarding wavelet transform, a combine of hard thresholding is performed for HH and LH sub-bands while soft thresholding is used in LL and HL sub-bands of the decomposed images. Three types of noise is encountered: Gaussian noise, salt & pepper noise and speckle noise. The measurements are employed to evaluate our work is MSE and PSNR and SSIM. Finally a comparison of the results shows that our method outperforms traditional wavelet using hard or soft thresholding.

One of the combinatorial optimization problems is Knapsack problem, which aims to maximize the benefit of objects whose weight not exceeding the capacity of knapsack. This paper introduces artificial bee colony algorithm to select a subset of project and represented by knapsack problem to put the best investment plan which achieve the highest profits within a determined costs, this plan is one of the applications of the financial field. The result from the proposed algorithm implemented by matlab (8.3) show the ability to find best solution with precisely and rapidity compared to genetic algorithm.

Exact solutions of traveling wave are acquired by employ a relatively new technique which is called standard tanh method for a nonlinear diffusion–convection equation. The tanh method is applied for the first time for finding travelling wave solutions for the nonlinear diffusion–convection equation u_t=(〖u^m)〗_xx+(u^n )_x, where n and m, are integers, and n≥m>1, of order (m=4, n=7) and (m=5, n=9). Analytical solutions of a nonlinear diffusion–convection equations are obtained as a polynomial in tanh(x), and the plots for exact solutions are given. The obtained results are compared with F-Expansion method to validate the proposed approach.