Accessory spleen occurs in about 10% to 30% of the population which is usually asymptomatic and does not require treatment [1]. The common location is the hilum of the spleen and around the tail of pancreas [2]. The retroperitoneal accessory spleen in the adrenal area is extremely rare and the diagnosis is challenging even for experienced urologists. In the present study, the case of a female p...

Background: Opioids such as opium deteriorate sexual organs activities. The effect of opium on the spermatogenesis of men was assessed in a region where it is abused more than any opioids. Materials and methods: In this case–control study, we studied 224 subjects, divided into 2 groups: 112 opium dependant and 112 non-addicts. The aim of this study was to determine the effects of opium depend...

Accessory spleen occurs in about 10% to 30% of the population which is usually asymptomatic and does not require treatment [1]. The common location is the hilum of the spleen and around the tail of pancreas [2]. The retroperitoneal accessory spleen in the adrenal area is extremely rare and the diagnosis is challenging even for experienced urologists. In the present study, the case of a female p...

Abstract The species of Pugilina cochlidium (Linnaeus, 1758) and P. erecta (Vermeij & Raben, 2009) has been studied in the present study. female can be differentiated from male by absence cephalic penis a complicated genital aparatus visible through mantle skirt both sexes. In other aspects external features are quite to males. digestive system was similar with few differences structure bet...

Previous studies on the metabolism of semen have furnished evidence that the reducing carbohydrate in seminal plasma is fructose, which is readily converted by the spermatozoa to lactic acid, thus providing an important source of energy for the sperm cells (Mann, 1946a, b, c). The rate of fructolysis represents an accurate and at the same time simple means of evaluation of semen; the fructolysi...

Specimens of testis, excurrent duct including the accessory genital glands and urethra throughout its extension were investigated in adult bovines, in order to immunohistochemically localize both the peptidergic innervation and the epithelial cell types belonging to the diffuse endocrine system (DES). Immunoreactivities to GRP, met- and leu-enkephalins, CGRP, NPY, substance P, VIP, somatostatin...

abstract: the prostate gland is the major accessory gland in male dogs. prostate disease is a common problem in older intact male dogs. the aim of this study was to determine prostatic dimensions by plain radiography and urethrocystography in dogs and compare them with actual sizes. plain radiography and urethrocystography were performed on 10 intact young adult male dogs. after necropsy length...

Postcopulatory sexual selection can select for sperm allocation strategies in males [1, 2], but males should also strategically allocate nonsperm components of the ejaculate [3, 4], such as seminal fluid proteins (Sfps). Sfps can influence the extent of postcopulatory sexual selection [5-7], but little is known of the causes or consequences of quantitative variation in Sfp production and transf...

Male Seminal Fluid Proteins (SFPs) transferred during copulation modulate female reproductive physiology and behavior, impacting sperm storage/use, ovulation, oviposition, and remating receptivity. These capabilities make them ideal targets for developing novel methods of insect disease vector control. Little is known about the nature of SFPs in the viviparous tsetse flies (Diptera: Glossinidae...