AIM Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis is the etiological agent of caseous lymphadenitis that affects sheep and goats. This study was designed to determine the presence of the causative organism in the female reproductive organs and associated lymph nodes in non-pregnant does experimentally inoculated through intradermal route in the chronic form. MATERIALS AND METHODS 18 non-pregnant healthy...

The possible benefits of mitigating extracellular histone cytotoxicity have been outlined for the reproductive tract and other organs (e.g., Simon et al., 2013; Galuska et al., 2017; Lefrançais and Looney, 2017; Wygrecka et al., 2017; Yang et al., 2017). However, a reassessment of previously published data supports the notion that uterine histone secretion fosters early embryo development in mu...

Background: The appearance of reactive oxygen species (ROS) is connect with oxidative energy production particularly in reproductive organs. They characterize by increased metabolism, which may change during ageing. Their increase could be dangerous for germ cells. That is why the antioxidant protection is need. One of the main antioxidative enzyme is superoxide dismutase (SOD) which could be r...

BACKGROUND It has been suggested that genes involved in the reproductive biology of insect disease vectors are potential targets for future alternative methods of control. Little is known about the molecular biology of reproduction in phlebotomine sand flies and there is no information available concerning genes that are expressed in male reproductive organs of Lutzomyia longipalpis, the main v...

Apoptosis of testicular germ cells and oocytes and their supporting cells in the gonads occurs at physiological and normal conditions or after exposure to pathological stimuli. Cell-death regulators, including Bcl-2 family members, caspases, Fas and p53 are thought to be involved in these processes. This article reviews the details of the apoptotic machinery in the reproductive organs by descri...