background: identifying new ways to decrease adiposity have great importance for human health. we aimed to find out whether l – arginine (arg) and selenium alone or together can increase the effect of hypocaloric diet enriched in legumes (hdel) on anthropometric measures in healthy women with central obesity. methods: this randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial was undertaken in 84 ...

Reproductive traits were measured for 234 bulls and 1184 heifers from matings of three dam breeds (Angus, Hereford, and MARC III) with six sire breeds (Angus, Hereford, Brahman, Boran, Tuli, and Belgian Blue) from the Germ Plasm Evaluation (GPE) Program at Roman L. Hruska US Meat Animal Research Center. Male traits were yearling scrotal circumference (YSC), height (YH), and yearling BW; age at ...

background the gonadectomy in patients with androgen insensitivity syndrome (ais) has been conventionally performed using laparotomic techniques. but currently several reports have suggested laparoscopic gonadectomy in these patients because of shorter hospital stay and minimal postoperative pain and hemorrhage. objective to report the laparoscopic gonadectomy in 11 patients suffering from andr...

A hidrocele testicular consiste no acúmulo anormal de líquido na túnica vaginal, geralmente relacionada à lesão ou inflamação escroto. Este trabalho tem como objetivo relatar a utilização do exame ultrassonográfico e o histopatológico para diagnóstico em suíno. Um cachaço apresentou aumento volume testicular, com edema enrijecimento dos testículos, sem sinais algesia. No havia regiões delimitad...

the present survey is a correlation study designed to determine extent and type of relation between mid-arm   circumference and weight in order to offer a scale for assumption of weight.   390 healthy, adults who are resident in tehran and between the ages 18-65 were selected from visitors at three   hospital censers at random. input accumulation was carried out by means of a questionnaire and ...

testicular scintigraphy has been well validated in the evaluation of patients with suspected testicular torsion and provides an accurate evaluation of testicular perfusion at the lime of imaging. however, the presence of normal or increased perfusion to the testis does not definitively exclude the necessity for surgical intervention. a case of intermittent testicular torsion, with a review of t...

background: after improvements in various cancer treatments, life expectancy has been raised, but success in treatment causes loss of fertility in many of the survived young men. cryopreservation of immature testicular tissues or cells introduced as the only way to preserve fertility. however, freezing has some harmful effects. melatonin, a pineal gland hormone, has receptors in reproductive sy...

objective: the lipid composition of a mammal’s spermatozoa and seminal plasma vary in both structure and function. evidence exists to suggest that dietary supplementation with the appropriate polyunsaturated fatty acids (pufas) affects spermatogenesis, semen quality and sperm motility. therefore, this study has been conducted to evaluate the correlations between serum lipid profile and histolog...