To evaluate and analyze the effect of foetal endocsopic tracheal occlusion (FETO) therapy on survival rates of neonatal with congenital diaphragmatic hernia and maternal complications. We performed a systemic review and meta-analysis of three randomized controlled trials (RCTs). The combined data on neonatal survival rates, length of gestational age and rates of premature rupture of membrane fr...

The mechanisms underlying detachment of foetal membranes after birth in cows are still unclear. To address this problem in a systematic manner, we performed the first holistic transcriptome study of bovine placentomes antepartum (AP; n=4 cows) and intrapartum (IP; n=4 cows) using Affymetrix GeneChip Bovine Genome Arrays. Three placentomes were extracted from each cow, and tissue samples from th...

Foetal membranes bulging into the abdominal cavity is a unique initial manifestation of silent or complete uterine rupture during pregnancy. Since silent uterine rupture has potential risk for complete uterine rupture, which leads to acute life-threatening complications for both the mother and baby, it is difficult to determine whether to manage expectantly or surgically, including repair of th...

By subjecting ¥x (CBA x C57/BL) x A eggs at the time of 2nd cleavage to 10 /tg/ml of cytochalasin B (CB), tetraploidy was produced in 52 % of 2-cell eggs and 35 % of 3-cell eggs. 2n/4n mosaic embryos were produced from 2-, 3and 4-cell eggs and amounted to 20 % of all treated eggs. 80 % of tetraploid embryos developed in vitro into regular blastocysts with half the cell number of control diploid...

By subjecting ¥x (CBA x C57/BL) x A eggs at the time of 2nd cleavage to 10 /tg/ml of cytochalasin B (CB), tetraploidy was produced in 52 % of 2-cell eggs and 35 % of 3-cell eggs. 2n/4n mosaic embryos were produced from 2-, 3and 4-cell eggs and amounted to 20 % of all treated eggs. 80 % of tetraploid embryos developed in vitro into regular blastocysts with half the cell number of control diploid...

MANY of the unicellular organisms have a greater concentration of osmotically active material within their body fluids than there is in the medium surrounding them, and the higher animals have glands like the kidney and sweat glands which are able to elaborate fluids with much lower concentrations of sodium and chloride than the body-fluids from which they were derived. The concentrations of so...

1. The effects of normal rabbit serum and of rabbit antiserum to whole foetal mouse tissues, on the isolated limb bones of late foetal mice were studied in organ culture, and the influence of hydrocortisone on these effects was investigated. 2. Unheated normal serum caused slight loss of metachromatic material from the cartilage matrix, and some resorption of both cartilage and bone. 3. In unhe...

BACKGROUND Prenatal consumption of oligosaccharides are associated with changes in the maternal gastrointestinal tract (GIT) microbiota with health consequences for the offspring. It has previously been demonstrated that caprine milk oligosaccharides (CMO) stimulate the growth and fermentation rate of Bifidobacterium bifidum AGR2166. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to examine the ef...

The normal development of the lung is dependent on signal transduction and communication within and between cells. A major family of proteins known as guanine nucleotide regulatory proteins (G proteins) is used in translating extracellular signals into intracellular events [1–3]. In particular, the high molecular weight G proteins, which are heterotrimers composed of α, β and γ subunits, have b...