The aim of this study was to report the oviduct cyst together with uterine serosal inclusion cysts observed in a 5-year-old female Anatolian water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis). General examination of the animal before slaughtering revealed no health problems. Blood was collected from jugular vein and serum was separated. Serum estradiol and progesterone concentrations were determined using electro...

Fertilization takes place in the lower part of the porcine oviduct and to be successful, a balance between immunological tolerance to allogeneic differences and immune reactivity to foreign pathogens is required. The thesis aims to describe immune cells and morphological changes in different segments [isthmus (Isth), ampulla (Amp) and infundibulum (Inf)] of the porcine oviduct at various stages...

An adult female budgerigar (Melopsittacus undulatus) presented with abdominal enlargement. The condition of the bird deteriorated after needle aspiration for cytological examination. The budgerigar was euthanatized and a complete necropsy was performed. Microscopic sections were prepared and stained with hematoxylin and eosin, Gram staining, periodic acid-Schiff (PAS) and acid-fast staining. Es...

The study was undertaken to determine the effect of histamine on blood flow to the ovary and oviduct in the domestic hen (Gallus domesticus). Cardiac output and blood flow were measured with 86RbCl through the ovarian stroma, white ovarian follicles, yellow preovulatory follicles, postovulatory follicles and four oviductal parts: infundibulum, magnum, isthmus and shell gland 1 min and 5 min aft...

BACKGROUND The occurrence of tubal ectopic pregnancy (tEP) is related to the inflammation of the oviduct. Recently, Adrenomedullin (ADM) was found highly expression in human oviduct. The current study is to investigate whether ADM have a modulatory action on inflammatory cytokines and chemokines in oviductal tissue from women with tubal ectopic pregnancy (tEP). METHODS Oviductal isthmus sampl...

The widely used herbicide, atrazine, has been reported to exhibit reproductive toxicity in rats and amphibians. The present studies investigate toxicity of atrazine in Japanese quail and its ability to influence reproduction in sexually immature females. Atrazine was administered in the diet at concentrations from 0.001 to 1000 ppm (approximately 109 mg kg-1 per day) or systemically via daily s...

gamma-Aminobutyric acid (GABA) and its synthetic enzyme, glutamate decarboxylase (GAD), are not limited to the nervous system but are also found in nonneural tissues. The mammalian brain contains at least two forms of GAD (GAD67 and GAD65), which differ from each other in size, sequence, immunoreactivity, and their interaction with the cofactor pyridoxal 5'-phosphate (PLP). We used cDNAs and an...