UNLABELLED Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) is a major cause of birth defects that include severe neurological deficits, hearing and vision loss, and intrauterine growth restriction. Viral infection of the placenta leads to development of avascular villi, edema, and hypoxia associated with symptomatic congenital infection. Studies of primary cytotrophoblasts (CTBs) revealed that HCMV infection impe...

Prenatal diagnosis of hematologic diseases can now be performed with fetal blood, fetal amniotic fluid cell DNA, and fetal chorionic villi DNA. Some hemoglobinopathies can be detected by all three methods, and the choice will depend on the available obstetric and laboratory techniques, as well as the time of presentation of the pregnancy. Hopefully, further development of molecular probes and t...

Background: Hydatidiform mole is a gestational trophoblastic disease with the highest incidence in Indonesia where 1 40 pregnancies. The cause of high influenced by reproductive performance patients such as disorders hypothalamic-pituitary-ovarian system which causes hyperproliferation cells, hydrophic degeneration chorionic villi, and increased levels β-hCG. Methods: This research was involvin...

Thirty clinically healthy Stara Zagora white turkeys (15 females and 15 males) were used for the study. Eighteen tissue samples (six from middle of each segment small intestine) appropriate age group to prepare permanent histological specimens. The sections stained by Masson - Goldner method. intestine turkey was composed four layers: tunica mucosa, submucosa, muscularis serosa. Tunica mucosa h...

Background: Organic acids and ammonium salts added to drinking water can optimize productivity of broiler chickens. Objective: To evaluate the effect acidifying on productive performance, blood intestinal pH, morphology broilers. Methods: 1,400 one-day-old chicks were used two pH levels (4 6) during three periods (1-21, 1-28, 1-42 days age). The treatments consisted with a blend formic acid (31...

Recently, the expression of a human endogenous retrovirus HERV-FRD, able to encode a fusogenic envelope protein (syncytin 2), has been observed in human placenta. The aim of the present study was to localize the expression of syncytin 2 in first trimester placenta. In addition, we investigated the presence of HERV-FRD transcripts during the in vitro differentiation of isolated villous and extra...

The objective of this study was to determine the relative roles of arachnoid villi and cervical lymphatics in the clearance of a cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) tracer in rats.125I-labeled human serum albumin (125I-HSA; 100 μg) was injected into one lateral ventricle, and an Evans blue dye-rat protein complex was injected intravenously. Arterial blood was sampled for 3 h. Immediately after this, mult...

We estimated the volumetric clearance of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) through arachnoid villi and extracranial lymphatics in conscious sheep. Catheters were inserted into both lateral ventricles, the cisterna magna, multiple cervical lymphatics, thoracic duct, and jugular vein. Uncannulated cervical vessels were ligated.125I-labeled human serum albumin (HSA) was administered into both lateral vent...

BACKGROUND Cases of ectopic pregnancy (EP) following levonorgestrel (LNG) emergency contraception (EC) failure were reported, however, the effects of LNG on tubal microenvironment or chorionic villi in EP have not yet been documented. METHODS Fifty-five women with tubal pregnancy were divided into two groups according to whether LNG-EC was administrated during the cycle of conception. The ser...

Glutathione-independent prostaglandin D synthase (PGDS) is an enzyme responsible for biosynthesis of prostaglandin D2 in the CNS and is identical to a major cerebrospinal fluid protein, beta-trace. Although PGDS has been identified recently in rat leptomeninges, little information is available about human meninges or meningiomas. Here, we report PGDS to be expressed consistently in 10 human ara...