Establishment and maintenance of pregnancy in equids is only partially understood. To provide new insights into early events of this process, we performed a systematic analysis of transcriptome changes in the endometrium at Days 8 and 12 of pregnancy. Endometrial biopsy samples from pregnant and nonpregnant stages were taken from the same mares. Composition of the collected biopsy samples was a...

BACKGROUND Studies in mice suggest that CD56 + uterine natural killer (uNK) cells play an important role in implantation. Studies in humans have described an increase in the number of uNK cells in the non-pregnant mid-secretory endometrium of women with unexplained recurrent miscarriage (RM). However, the predictive value of uNK cell number in the maintenance of pregnancy is controversial. ME...

PROBLEM Macrophages are recruited in large number to the interplacentomal endometrium of the cow during pregnancy. We evaluated whether endometrial macrophages also accumulate in placentomal regions of endometrium during pregnancy and whether endometrial macrophages are regionally differentiated. METHOD OF STUDY Interplacentomal endometrium and placentomes were subjected to dual-color immunof...

BACKGROUND Maternal intake of vitamin D in pregnancy is a potentially modifiable but understudied risk factor for the development of asthma in children. OBJECTIVE We investigated whether maternal vitamin D intake in pregnancy is associated with decreased risks of wheezing symptoms in young children. DESIGN Subjects were from a birth cohort recruited in utero with the primary objective of id...

background: we aimed to explore whether maternal asymptomatic hepatitis b (hb) infection effects on pre-term rupture of membranous (prom), stillbirth, preeclampsia, eclampsia, gestational hypertension, or antepartum hemorrhage. methods: we searched the pubmed, scopus, and isi web of science from 1990 to feb 2015. in addition, electronic literature searches supplemented by searching the gray lit...

Background -Recurrent pregnancy loss defined as two or more miscarriage before 20 weeks of pregnancy affecting 1-5 % or women in reproductive age .There are many etiologies have been suggested, like Genetic, Immunologic, Thrombophila, Endocrine and Anatomic; but in 50% of cases, the exact etiology remains uncertain. Endometrium acts as biosensor of embryo quality and endometrium itself contribu...

PURPOSE To determine the nutritional status of vitamin E in breastfeeding women through the analysis of alpha-tocopherol concentration in serum and colostrum, to analyze its relation with maternal variables and to determine the prevalence of vitamin E deficiency in these women. METHODS The study included 103 mothers who were classified according to maternal variables: age, nutritional status ...

Increased folate intake reduces the risk of neural tube defects, other malformations and also possibly, pregnancy complications. Increasing evidence suggests that the beneficial effect of folate may be related to improved function of methionine synthase, a vitamin B12-dependent enzyme that converts homocysteine to methionine. In India, the majority of the population adheres to a vegetarian diet...

BACKGROUND Sildenafil citrate may increase endometrial thickness and affect the outcome of frozen-thawed embryo transfer cycles. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to estimate the effect of sildenafil citrate on ultrasonographic endometrial thickness and pattern and to investigate the estrogen level on the day of progesterone administration, the implantation rate and chemical pregnancy rate ...