Four US genetic-economic indices for dairy cattle were retrofitted to illustrate differences in phenotypic response observed for retrospective selection over 2 generations for currently evaluated traits, even though producers did not have evaluations available at the time for direct selection for those traits. Differences among cows were compared based on ranking of their sires and maternal gra...

Understanding cardiovascular physiological adaptation to pregnancy is particularly important in elucidating the pathophysiology and management of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy—still one of the most common causes of maternal morbidity and mortality worldwide. Functional changes of the heart in pregnancy have been widely investigated during the last few decades with relatively inconsistent ...

Understanding cardiovascular physiological adaptation to pregnancy is particularly important in elucidating the pathophysiology and management of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy—still one of the most common causes of maternal morbidity and mortality worldwide. Functional changes of the heart in pregnancy have been widely investigated during the last few decades with relatively inconsistent ...

in a corss sectional survey, anthropometric indices of 205 women in hassanabad khaleseh, rural area of eslamshahr on the basis of weight (wt), height (ht), body mass index (bmi), midarm circumference (mac) and waist to hip ratio (w/h) has been investigated. the dependence of these indices to some independent variables were determined. the findings of this study indicated that the mean of wt, ht...

A prospective observational study was performed on 488 women with haemoglobin >/=10 g/dl at booking to examine the relationship between serum ferritin concentration quartiles at 28-30 weeks gestation with maternal characteristics, pregnancy complications and infant outcome. While there was no difference in the maternal characteristics or gestational age, the infant size decreased significantly ...

Myristica fragrans has been reported to be a medicinal plant as it possesses hepatoprotective, antimicrobial, anti-oxidant, antiulcer, anticancer and immunostimulatory properties, well antifertility potentials. This study therefore aimed investigate the effects of alcoholic extract M. on dam size, litter pup weight, ovarian follicles, endometrial glands histopathological indices pregnancy outco...

INTRODUCTION The placental anticoagulant protein Annexin A5 (ANXA5) is a multifunctional protein that is highly expressed on the apical surfaces of syncytiotrophoblasts, and plays an important role in haemostatic regulations, maintaining blood fluidity of the placenta. The aim of this study was to investigate the expression of ANXA5 in pregnancies complicated by preeclampsia (PE). MATERIALS A...