Background: Obesity is a very common disorder resulting from an imbalance between food intake and energy expenditure, and it has a substantial impact on the development of chronic diseases.  The aim of this study was to examine the association of INSIG2 (rs7566605) gene polymorphism with obesity and obesity associated phenotypes in North Indian subjects. Methods: The variants were investig...

benefits and risks of surgery should be discussed in detail with the parents and the patient. In selected adolescents with varicoceles, semen analysis may be useful in decision-making 17 though the normal range for adolescent semen parameters is lacking. Hormonal tests may be potentially useful for evaluation of testicular function in adolescents with varicocele and helpful in selecting patient...

background: obesity is a very common disorder resulting from an imbalance between food intake and energy expenditure, and it has a substantial impact on the development of chronic diseases.  the aim of this study was to examine the association of insig2 (rs7566605) gene polymorphism with obesity and obesity associated phenotypes in north indian subjects. methods: the variants were investigated ...

Predicting potential fertility and eventual egg hatchability in chickens can be done by evaluating the quality of semen. This study's objective was to describe semen characteristics three different age groups Horasi chicken ecotype cocks (24-32, 28-36, 32-40 weeks). From 20 cocks; 6 (24-32 weeks), (28-36 8 (32-40 weeks) over course four weeks (5-29th Dec 2022), 80 samples total were taken. Sper...

Male infertility accounts for about 50% of infertility cases [1]. Anatomic, genetic, endocrinological, environmental, behavioral and nutritional imbalances are critical causes of male infertility [2-5]. Therapeutic drugs can also adversely affect male fertility by injuring testicular cells or instigate hormonal changes that lead to decreased semen quality (Figure 1) thereby compromising the pro...

Numerous reports have recently focused on various aspects of adverse trends in male reproductive health, such as the rising incidence of testicular cancer; low and probably declining semen quality; high and possibly increasing frequencies of undescended testis and hypospadias; and an apparently growing demand for assisted reproduction. Due to specialization in medicine and different ages at pre...

OBJECTIVES Considerable interest and controversy over a possible decline in semen quality during the 20th century raised concern that semen quality could have reached a critically low level where it might affect human reproduction. The authors therefore initiated a study to assess reproductive health in men from the general population and to monitor changes in semen quality over time. DESIGN ...

S.J. Parekattil and A. Agarwal (eds.), Male Infertility: Contemporary Clinical Approaches, Andrology, ART & Antioxidants, DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-3335-4_33, © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012 In the past 5–10 years, obesity has become a worldwide epidemic that has brought attention to learning more about the various causes, effects, and treatments. A combination of an increasingly accep...

Artificial insemination (AI) is the preferred method for reproduction in the majority of the intensive pig production systems Worldwide. To this end, fresh extended ready-to-use semen doses are either purchased from AI-centres or produced by boars kept on-farm. For profitable semen production, it is necessary to obtain a maximum amount of high quality semen from each boar. This paper reviews cu...