an important part of male infertility of unknown etiology may be attributed to various environmental and occupational exposures to toxic substances, such as lead. the reproductive effects of lead are complex and appear to involve multiple pathways, not all of which are fully understood. it is still unclear, for example, if male reproductive issues in lead-exposed persons are mostly related to t...

objective(s): the adverse effects of pyridaben on reproductive system in male animals are not well established. this study was designed to elucidate how pyridaben can effects the histomorphometric, hormonal alternations and reproductive functions of balb/c mice .   materials and methods : for this study, 80 adult and apparently healthy male balb/c mice were divided into three groups viz, contro...

the present study evaluated the effects of diets enriched in saturated and polyunsaturated fatty acids (n-3and n-6) on reproductive indices, metabolic hormones and metabolites prior to ram introduction in oestrussynchronized ewes. zel ewes (n=188) were assigned to 4 groups. ewes in the control group (con) did notreceive fat. ewes in the 3 other groups received 3% oil/dm/day of palmolein oil (pl...

during a survey on the identification of plant-parasitic nematodes associated with walnut in sanandej region (kurdistan province, western iran), a population of paratylenchus labiosus was collected and identified morphologically. description, illustrations and morphometrics of the species are given and comparisons are made between it and some related species. paratylenchus labiosus comes more c...

the objective of the present study was to determine factors affecting body condition score (bcs) and its association with productive and reproductive performances in holstein cows. mixed model analysis was performed on monthly records of bcs from april 2006 to july 2012 comprising 34666 records from 3134 dairy cows in a large commercial dairy herd under arid climatic conditions of isfahan in ir...

reproduction and fertility are one of the principles marital life. actually it can be said that the most important thing after survival is continued generation. the aim of this research was to determine the effects of mental health in womens of fertile and infertile. this research was performed at kowsar infertility clinic in tehran city. the scale ghq28 was used for this evaluate. this scale w...

A major challenge for plants in a rapidly changing climate is to adapt rising temperatures. Some temperature conditions by generating an epigenetic memory that can be transmitted both meiotically and mitotically. Such memories may increase phenotypic variation global warming provide time adaptation occur through classical genetic selection. The goal of this study was understand how warmer exper...

In this paper we use allozyme analyses to demonstrate that individuals in Anthopleura krebsi aggregates are monoclonal. Additionally, sympatric samples of the red and the green colour-morphs of A. krebsi from Pernambuco, Brazil were genetically compared and no significant differences were observed between them (gene identity = 0.992), indicating that they do not belong to different biological s...