abstract background: recently there is a focus on the antioxidants as adjuvant treatment of polycystic ovary syndrome (pcos), the most endocrinopathy in reproductive age women. objective: the aim of this review is answer to the question whether antioxidants are effective for managing of hormonal and metabolic problems in women with pcos based on first degree evidences from iran. materials and m...

objective: to compared serum crp levels and biochemical relation in pcos patients with normal iranian women. materials and methods: this case-control study was performed on 52 individuals with pcos (rotterdam 2003 criteria). the cases were compared to 104 healthy non-pcos, 20 to 35-year-old female subjects with no history of diabetes or renal diseases. blood samples were taken on the 2(nd) to t...

objective: carthamus tinctorius l. (safflower) is a member of the asteraceae family which had been classified as a fertility regulator in the traditional medicine. the purpose of this study was to investigate its possible effects on the ovarian histomorphology and the levels of female reproductive hormones in the mice. materials and methods: sixty adult female balb/c mice were selected and rand...

twelve (experiment i) and four (experiment ii) multiparous dairy cows seronegative to pestivirus were selected and randomly assigned to either a control group which did not become infected or a treatment group in which all cows became infected following intranasal inoculation 9 days before ai. the experimental induction of infection was carried out with 2 ml of non-cytopathic pestivirus (bvd vi...

background copper (cu) is an essential trace element involved in normal reproduction but its overexposure may produce some detrimental effects. the aim of this study was to investigate the effects of copper sulfate poisoning on morphometery of mice ovarian structures and probable intracellular changes. methods thirty mature female mice were randomly allocated to control and two treatment groups...

this study reports the incidence of histological alterations in morphometric changes in the liver and ovary of acanthopagrus latus collected from an urban stream impaired by anthropogenic activities and from a clean site (reference). mercury concentration was determined using a standard cold vapor atomic absorption. the results showed that mercury concentration at the creek waters, and speciall...

The ovary is a dynamic organ that undergoes cyclic structural and functional changes. Structurally, the internal architecture of the ovary constantly changes as follicles grow, rupture and transform into corpora lutea in a cyclical manner. Functionally, a variety of regulatory ovarian hormones are sequentially produced, and eggs are periodically released. As a highly vascularized organ, the ova...

Molecular interactions in a developing gonad are crucial for an individual since they determine its phenotypic sex. The process of sex determination is complicated because of the antagonistic interactions between the male and female pathway. Factors responsible for the determination of femaleness make the female pathway. This pathway has to inhibit a complex network of male-determining factors ...