In embryo transfer experiments in mice, pseudopregnant females as recipients are prepared by sterile mating with vasectomized males. Because only females at the proestrus stage accept males, such females are selected from a stock of animals based on the appearance of their external genital tract. Therefore, the efficiency of preparing pseudopregnant females largely depends on the size of female...

Future fertility is of paramount importance to younger cancer survivors. Advances in assisted reproductive technology mean that young women treated with radiation involving the uterus may require clinical guidance regarding whether to attempt a pregnancy themselves. We performed a review of the literature regarding radiation involving uterus (total body irradiation (TBI) and pelvic radiation), ...

SLE is a multi-system, autoimmune condition that can influence both male and female fertility. Inability to conceive may be attributed to several factors that may act singly or in combination: (i) older age in patients with SLE compared with healthy controls; (ii) disease-related infertility; and (iii) infertility through gonadotoxic treatments. In addition, psychosocial factors related to the ...

total fertility rate relates to the number of children that a woman bears in the fertility period of her life. fertility function is one of the most important health and population indicators. this indicator affects social, health, economic and cultural factors. this study is an ecological or correlative one. factors affecting total fertility rate in iran in the year 2000 are studied in this pa...

From the turn of 20th century, biopreparations that quicken plant growth and development have been frequently employed. The accumulated knowledge mechanisms governing interactions between microorganisms plants necessitates use minimal resources energy in targeted design phytomicrobial systems optimization their adaptability order to increase soil fertility productivity, yield, resistance diseas...

The escalation of Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ARTs) in India into a veritable fertility industry is the result of a multitude of reasons. This paper places the bio-genetic industry within the larger political economy framework of globalisation and privatisation, thus employing a framework that is often omitted from discussions on ARTs, but has direct and significant bearings on the ART ...

Over the last several decades, both delay of childbearing and fertility problems have become increasingly common among women in developed countries. At the same time, technological changes have made many more options available to individuals experiencing fertility problems. However, these technologies are expensive, and only 25% of health insurance plans in the United States cover infertility t...

In modern societies, the proportion of women who delay childbearing beyond the age of 35 years has greatly increased in recent decades. They are falsely reassured by popular beliefs that advances in new reproductive technologies can compensate for the age-related decline in fertility. Yet age remains the single most important determinant of male and female fertility, either natural or treated. ...

Scholarship on assisted reproductive technologies (ART) has emphasized the commercial nature of the interaction between fertility patients and their physicians, but little attention has been paid to precisely how clinics persuade patients to choose their clinics over their competitors’. This Article offers evidence about how clinics sell ART based on clinics’ advertising on their websites. To a...