in a preliminary study carried out in a simple field laboratory in bandar-abbas, southern iran, five isolates of p. falciparum collected from the patients was cultured in rpmi 1640 medium with human serum in the tightly closed screw capped vials without any devised system for adjustment of co2 and o2 mixture. the same isolates were also cultured, simultaneously, in petri-dishes using jensen-tra...

orally active aromatase inhibitors (ais) have gained attention for treatment of infertile women with endometriosis in whom aromatase p450 is aberrantly expressed. this review aimed to critically appraise and summarize the available evidence concerning the use of ais for management of endometriosis-associated infertility. pubmed was searched to may 2015 with the following key words: endometriosi...

Background: Endometriosis is the presence of endometrial glandular and stromal cells outside of the uterine cavity. Our previous study showed that in vitro culture of human endometrial tissue in a three-dimensional (3D) fibrin matrix could mimic the early stages of endometriosis with invasion, gland and stroma formation and sprouting of new vessels. Objective: The objective of the present study...

Orally active aromatase inhibitors (AIs) have gained attention for treatment of infertile women with endometriosis in whom aromatase p450 is aberrantly expressed. This review aimed to critically appraise and summarize the available evidence concerning the use of AIs for management of endometriosis-associated infertility. PubMed was searched to May 2015 with the following key words: endometriosi...

the aim of the present study was to investigate the effect of follicle stimulating hormone (fsh) on survival, activation and growth of ovine primordial follicles using histological studies. pieces of ovine ovarian cortex were obtained and cultured for 6 days in minimum essential medium supplemented with or without fsh (50 ng/ml). these fragments were then process to be used for histology compar...

plantlets grown in conventional tissue culture systems usually encounter physiological and anatomical abnormalities including inability to photosynthesize, low chlorophyll content, open stomata, lack of a cuticle layer in the leaf, abnormal xylem parenchyma etc. photoautotrophic and photomixotrophic systems could diminish these problems. the purpose of this study was to increase the chlorophyll...

Circulating embryotoxic factors could be responsible for reproductive failures observed in patients suffering from recurrent spontaneous abortions (RSA) and endometriosis. The mouse bioassay has been widely used to detect such factors, since sera from these patients inhibit early embryonic development. This bioassay consists in the in-vitro culture of two-cell mouse embryos in the presence of d...

background: endometriosis is a common chronic inflammation which leads to infertility and chronic pelvic pain in affected women. secretory phospholipase a2 type iia (spla2iia) is an acute phase reactant that is markedly increased in inflammatory disorders. objective: to assess the effects of ω-3 and ω-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids (pufas) administration in endometrial cells culture on spla2iia ...