Radiation therapy is often a component of care for patients with cancer. While radiation has great capability to kill cancer, side effects are possible. Fortunately, dramatic strides have been made in improving radiation treatment over the last few decades – modern computing and technology allow focused delivery of high radiation doses to tumors with four dimensional image guidance, dramaticall...

background: the aim of this preliminary study was to assess the safety and efficacy of high-dose oral vitamin d3 supplementation during pregnancy in women with multiple sclerosis (ms) in isfahan, iran. methods: in a single center open-label randomized, controlled clinical phase i/ii pilot study, 15 pregnant women with confirmed ms with low serum 25-hydroxyvitamin d (25(oh)d) levels were randoml...

Vitamin B12 maintains normal folate metabolism which is essential for cell multiplication during pregnancy. No good data are available on what constitutes vitamin B12 deficiency in pregnancy, nevertheless vitamin B12 deficiency is frequently reported in pregnancy due to inadequate dietary intake of vitamin B12 and a physiological decline of maternal vitamin B12 concentrations. This decline can ...

BACKGROUND There exist contradictive views on whether the vitamin D has association with clinical outcome of in vitro fertilization (IVF) and/or intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI). The present meta-analysis aim to establish whether vitamin D was associated with clinical outcomes of IVF/ICSI. METHODS MEDLINE, Google Scholar and the Cochrane Library from database inception to March 2017 we...

The aim of the present study was to test the hypothesis that maternal intake of antioxidant vitamins is associated with maternal and cord plasma levels at delivery. Women were recruited in early pregnancy in Aberdeen Maternity Hospital and habitual diet during pregnancy was assessed by a food-frequency questionnaire mailed at 34 weeks gestation. Blood samples were taken at recruitment (n 1149) ...

Pregnancy-associated plasma protein-A (PAPP-A) is approved to be not pregnancy specific; it could localized in nonpregnant women endometrium. Thus, was of interest see if PAPP-A can capable preparing the uterine endometrium for implantation. However, relationship between serum and receptivity remains unclear. To evaluate there any correlation level associated with endometrial thickness resistan...

background: endometrial secretion analysis is a non-invasive and promising method in evaluation of endometrial receptivity. objective: the aim of the present study was to assess the relationship between the success rate of ivf procedures and some endometrial secretion cytokines, including interleukin-1β (il-1β), tumor necrosis factor (tnf-α), interferon gamma-induced protein 10 (ip-10), and mon...

During gestation, many important molecular factors associated with embryo implantation and development occur within the female reproductive tract. The endometrium includes the muscosal lining of the uterus, which gives a convenient location for implantation and development of a fertilized egg and fetus. At present, the molecular cascades in the uterus endometrium during pregnancy periods in far...

background: gnrh agonist and antagonist were developed to control the premature release of lh surge. there is some difference between two protocols. objective: we compared the outcome of frozen-thawed embryo transfer in infertile women who used gnrh agonist or antagonist protocol for previous coh cycle and evaluation of any adverse effect of gnrh antagonist on oocyte and embryo. materials and m...