background and aims: leptin is a hormone known to control appetite and body weight. the leptin levels in obese animals are always more than animals with normal size. a wide variety of methods have been offered to treat obesity of which herbal therapy is considered as one of these methods. the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of ethanolic extract of asian red ginseng on leptin ser...

according to different geographical conditions, human health in different sub-regions of the world and cultural differences, the male factor infertility has heterogeneous causes in the world. this study was performed in an attempt to clarify the associated factors which might play a role in this respect in a group of iranian infertile men. this study was a cross - sectional, descriptive and ret...

background: a hemangioma is a rather common benign soft tissue tumor that rarely originates from both the pectoralis muscle and the breast. vascular tumors of the breast, such as benign hemangiomas, are rarely seen in men. case presentation: a 40-year-old man presented with a non-tender palpable right breast mass since 6 months ago. on physical examination, a hard lump was detected in the centr...

background in iranian folk medicine ruta graveolens has been used for female and male contraceptive. there are few studies about the effect of this plant on spermatogenesis. objectives in this study the effect of long term administration of aqueous extract of rg on spermatogenesis has been investigated. materials and methods animals were allocated into 1) control: which did not receive anything...

objective: in this study we investigated the effects of spearmint (mentha spicata labiatae) on the reproductive system, fertility and number of offspring in adult male rats. materials and methods: adult wistar male rats in one control (c) and three experimental groups (i, ii and iii) received 0, 10, 20 and 40 mg/kg spearmint extract orally for 45 days, respectively.  following this treatment, t...

breast sarcomas have relatively been rare and accounted for 1% of all primary malignant tumors of the breast. pure and primary chondrosarcoma of the male breast would be an extremely rare tumor. it might arise either from the breast stroma itself, or from underlying bone or cartilage. a 65-year-old man has presented with a rapidly growing breast mass since 5 months. physical examination has est...

background: toxoplasma gondii is an intracellular protozoan parasite that infects human and animals. toxoplasma parasites are isolated from different parts of ani-mals even from semen but there are little information about the effect of toxo-plasmosis on fertility in animals and humans. in present study, the effect of chronic toxoplasmosis on serum levels of testosterone in men was studied. met...

conclusions using -2.5 standard deviations as the cutoff for micropenis, a newborn infant in golestan province with a pl of < 23.3 mm had micropenis; however, more investigations are needed to clarify this issue. results means of pl and agd of 427 healthy term newborns were 32.1 ± 3.5 and 24.5 ± 2.5 mm, respectively. there was a positive correlation between pl and agd (r = 0.097, p = 0.046). ac...