Obstetric analgesia and anesthesia should provide optimal pain relief for the parturient with minimal risks. The local anesthetic agents are most commonly used for obstetric analgesia and anesthesia. We investigated the effect of local anesthetic agents: prilocaine, bupivacaine, ultracaine on myometrium in pregnant rats. In our study, we evaluated the effects of three local anesthetics at cumul...

Uterine metastasis from stomach carcinoma occurred in a patient who five years previously had undergone gastrectomy for gastric adenocarcinoma. CT scans showed an ill-defined lobulated low density mass in the center of the uterus. Tl-weighted MRI imaging showed that the lesion was indistinct from the myometrium; on T2-weighted imaging it showed increased signal intensity and had infiltrated the...

Adenomyosis, an estrogen-dependent inflammatory disease, is defined as the presence of endometrial glands and stroma deep within the myometrium [1]. The main clinical features of adenomyosis are dysmenorrhea and menorrhagia, which are significantly associated with peritoneal endometriosis in infertile patients at reproductive age [2,3]. The only difference between adenomyosis and endometriosis ...

Microarray technologies widen our comprehension of the major structural and metabolic transformations which affect the myometrium from the very beginning of pregnancy until parturition. The results are coherent with the mass of information which was accumulated previously, primarily on the basis of studies of selected critical factors. They highlight the activation of precise signaling pathways...

The epithelium of the circumvallate papillae of rat tongues was stripped off by treatment with 0.005% elastase in a state when many taste buds were present. The taste buds were isolated from the stripped epithelium by further treatment with 0.005% elastase and 0.08% trypsin. A protein which was thought to be characteristic of taste buds was found from semimicro disc polyacrylamide gel electroph...

Although the eggs of salmon and trout have long been of interest to physiologists the extent to which the eggs are permeable to sodium ions is not clear from previous accounts. Freshly stripped salmon eggs contain 2-3 /t-equiv. Na/egg. During embryonic development the quantity of sodium in the egg remains approximately constant (Hayes, 1949), but sodium balance in the freshly stripped egg is co...