Botulinum toxin is probably the newest addition in the treatment armamentarium for overactive bladder , but, despite its late FDA approval, a significant experience exists in several centers around the world with this type of treatment. Because of its experimental status, the treatment with botulinum toxin is still lacking the much needed standardization, allowing for a great variety when it co...

BACKGROUND Hepatitis C (HCV) and hepatitis B (HBV) virus infection can lead to serious complications if left untreated, but often remain undetected in primary care. Mild alanine aminotransferase (ALT) elevations (30-100 IU/l) are commonly found and could be associated with viral hepatitis; unfortunately, these findings frequently remain without follow-up. AIM To determine if and how mild ALT...

background: ischemia reperfusion (ir) is the main pathology of torsion of testis and it is a common urologic emergency. there is some evidence that shows oxytocin (ot) plays role in ischemia reperfusion. objective: to evaluate this hypothesis that ot can decrease germ cell apoptotic index in testis under acute ischemia reperfusion in a rat model. materials and methods: 20 adult rats were random...

postconditioning is a simple and safe strategy for cardioprotection and infarct size limitation. our previous study showed that oxytocin (ot) exerts postconditioning effect on ischemic/reperfused isolated rat heart. the aim of this study was to investigate the involvement of ot receptor, mitochondrial atp-sensitive potassium channel (mkatp), nitric oxide (no) and cyclooxygenase (cox) pathways i...

The present work aimed to identify the best doses of human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) needed to induce oocyte maturation of Micropogonias furnieri and to characterize ovarian dynamics during the periovulatory period. Adult M. furnieri females with fully developed ovaries were injected intraperitoneally with four different doses of hCG. The gonadotropin response was succeeded by analyzing morp...

background: the capability of embryonic carcinoma cells p19 in differentiation to cardiomyocyte was examined through inducing effects of oxytocin (ot) and 5-azacytidin (5az) individually and compared with each other in laboratory condition. materials and methods: p19 embryoid bodies (ebs) was formed through hanging drops method. then, ebs were treated with (5az) or (ot) and the eb medium (ctrl)...

Objectives. To examine associated clinical features and evaluate published criteria regarding volumetric diagnosis of ovarian torsion (OT). Methods. Retrospective case-control study of patients presenting to an emergency department who underwent pelvic imaging for acute abdominal or pelvic pain. Cases were found to have OT at surgery. Controls received clinical diagnosis of either acute pelvic ...

the objective of this study was to evaluate effect of different concentrations of catalase in two extenders on motility, viability and lipid peroxidation bull spermatozoa during semen freezing process. thirty ejaculates collected from ten holstein bulls were pooled and evaluated at 37 °c. pool ejaculated was split into two main experimental groups, 1 and 2. in experiment 1, specimen was diluted...