Although hormonal regulation of ovarian follicle development has been extensively investigated, most studies concentrate on the development of early antral follicles to the preovulatory stage, leading to the successful use of exogenous FSH for infertility treatment. Accumulating data indicate that preantral follicles are under stringent regulation by FSH and local intraovarian factors, thus pro...

Aims: To evaluate the ovarian reserve in women with chronic urticaria (CU).
 Methods: Thirty CU and twenty nine healthy controls were enrolled this study. Serum levels of anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH), follicle-stimulating (FSH), estradiol (E2), luteinizing (LH) measured on cycle day 2. All patients underwent transvaginal ultrasonographic examination second their menstrual to assess Antral ...

In the present study, we have investigated the cellular mechanisms of androgen-induced antral follicular growth arrest and the possible involvement of chemerin and its receptor chemokine-like receptor 1 (CMKLR1) in this process, using a chronically androgenized rat model. We hypothesize that hyperandrogenism induces antral follicle growth arrest via the action of chemerin and ovarian structural...

Evidence shows that luteinising hormone (LH) participates in enhancing the transition from early to antral stage of folliculogenesis. Functional LH receptor was demonstrated be expressed, albeit at a very low level, even smaller follicles during phase traditionally considered gonadotropin-independent suggesting role for accelerating rate progression non-growing and primary preantral/antral stag...

AIMS To determine the prevalence of lymphoid follicles in Helicobacter pylori positive and negative gastritis in antral and body type gastric mucosa in patients with non-ulcer dyspepsia (NUD), duodenal ulcer, or gastric ulcer; to correlate follicle presence with patient age; to evaluate the correlation between the prevalence of lymphoid follicles and active and inactive gastritis and its severi...

Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) is a common endocrine-reproductive disease in females. PCOS patients show decreased ovary granular cells, which is possibly related with cell apoptosis. This study thus aimed to investigate the apoptotic mechanism in PCOS via measuring the protein expressions of apoptosis and anti-apoptosis related molecules in PCOS patients. A total of 30 PCOS patients were rec...