Background: Aortic artery stenosis leads to Ischemia-Reperfusion (I-R) injury, which can cause certain clinical expressions, such as paraplegia. Objectives: To appraise the effect of Catechin Hydrate (CH) against spinal cord I-R injury. Materials & Methods: A total of 35 male rats (250-300 g) were divided randomly into five groups:  intact, sham surgery, dimethyl sulfoxide (I-R+DMSO), low-dos...

background: one determining factor of a successful ivf cycle is embryo quality. the aim of the present prospective study was to evaluate the associations between markers of ovarian reserve and ovarian response and embryo quality materials and methods: one hundred and twenty infertile women, aged 21-44 years, undergoing routine exploration during an unstimulated cycle that preceded art at our ce...

Abstract Study question Does short Co-incubation of gametes increase quality and quantity embryos by eliminating suboptimal culture conditions like increased reactive oxygen species seen with overnight incubation? Summary answer Although co-incubation group had lower fertilization rate it yielded more blastocysts top on day 3 5. What is known already Successful can occur 20 minutes after gamete...

OBJECTIVES To assess the direct and indirect effects of patient or caregiver factors on caregiver burden of caring for community-residing people with mild Alzheimer's disease (AD). METHODS We conducted a cross-sectional study of patients diagnosed with AD from two hospitals and three communities in Taiyuan, China and their caregivers. For this survey, 200 patients with mild AD and their careg...

Background: Lifestyle changes, such as changes in sleep patterns and insufficient sleep have led to an increase in obesity and hyperlipidemia. The present study was conducted to investigate the association between abnormal lipid profile and obesity with sleep pattern among adult in Yazd adults in Shahedieh cohort study. Methods: This analytic cross-sectional study was carried out on the data of...

objective: the lipid composition of a mammal’s spermatozoa and seminal plasma vary in both structure and function. evidence exists to suggest that dietary supplementation with the appropriate polyunsaturated fatty acids (pufas) affects spermatogenesis, semen quality and sperm motility. therefore, this study has been conducted to evaluate the correlations between serum lipid profile and histolog...