Razdan, P. 2003. Stress and early pregnancy in sows Effect on endocrinology, ova transport and embryo development Doctoral dissertation. Mixing unfamiliar breeding female pigs creates stressful situations due to aggressive interactions, which can lead to food deprivation of the more submissive animals. The aim of this thesis was to study the type of stress occurring when sows are regrouped into...

background: hormesis is defined as the bio-positive response of something which is bio-negative in high doses. in the present study, the effect of radiation hormesis was evaluated on the survival rate of immunosuppressed balb/c mice by cyclosporine a. materials and methods: we used 75 consanguine, male, balb/c mice in this experiment. the first group received technetium-99m (3700bq) and the sec...

introdouction: squamous cell carcinoma is the most common oral cancer and the prognosis because of a late diagnosis remains poor despite numerous treatments. therefore, we conducted a cross-sectional study to investigate the relationships between survival rate(sr) of oral squamous cell carcinoma (oscc) and clinical,demographic, pathological, and molecular factors in yazd city during 1998– 2008....

The impact of aqueous leaf extract of Hybanthus enneaspermus (HEaq) on pregnancy factors and litter survival was investigated in Sprague Dawley (SD) rat. Control group received distilled water while the test group received 2g/kg body weight of HEaq orally. Blood samples were collected on days one and twenty of pregnancy for total blood count, serum thyroid hormone, thyroid stimulating hormone (...

OBJECTIVE To report the outcome of monochorionic (MC) and dichorionic (DC) triamniotic (TA) triplet pregnancies treated with endoscopic laser coagulation of the communicating placental vessels for severe feto-fetal transfusion syndrome (FFTS) and selective fetal growth restriction (sFGR). METHODS Laser surgery was performed at 18 (15-24) weeks' gestation in 11 MCTA and 33 DCTA pregnancies com...

Background: Infertility problem affects 20-30% of young couples. One of the known causes of spermatogenesis disorder is chemotherapy in patients with cancer which its side effect may last up to the end of the life. The aim of the present study is to investigate the effect of GnRH on viability of ovarian follicles defect produced by anticancer drug. Materials and Methods: In the present study ad...

Swine uterine capacity affects litter size, and it could be used as a selection parameter of reproductive performance. Although there are some controversial results, evidences show that the catheter penetration length is positively correlated with litter size, and it could be used as a tool for predicting selection methods. The aim of this study was to determine whether there is any association...

background: implantation failure is one of the most important factors limiting success in ivf treatment. the majority of trials have demonstrated favorable effect of endometrial injury on implantation success rate especially in women with recurrent implantation failure, while some studies failed to detect any benefit. objective: the purpose of our trial was to explore whether endometrial injury...

Incidence of pregnancy in the noncommunicating rudimentary horn is 1 in 76,000-150,000 pregnancies A noncommunicating rudimentary horn pregnancy reaching term is also very rare and there are only 13 fetal survivals reported since 1960. Only 10% of these pregnancies reach term with 2% newborn survival rate .it is in this context that our case report attains significance. Our patient had a rudime...