Background: Histological and histometrical effects of Fennel Essential Oil (FEO) on ovary structure were studied during postnatal development in female wistar rats. Materials and Methods: For this purpose, the female rats, after parturition divided in control, sham and experimental groups with equal number of female pups for each mother at random. Sham 1 and experimental 1 groups consisted of m...

The immunocytochemical staining patterns of 37 neuron-specific monoclonal antibodies previously described fell into four groups: (i) anti-synapse-associated, (ii) anti-neurofibrillar, (iii) anti-perikaryonal-neurofibrillar, and (iv) a single antibody reactive with a widely distributed epitope that covered the patterns of groups ii and iii. Antibodies of groups ii, iii, and iv were shown to be s...

BACKGROUND Conflicting reports have been published on the sensitivity of spermatogenesis to capsaicin (CAP), the pungent ingredient of hot chili peppers. Here, the effect of CAP on germ cell survival was investigated by using two testis germ cell lines as a model. As CAP is a potent agonist of the transient receptor potential vanilloid receptor 1 (TRPV1) and no information was available of its ...

The localization of estrogen receptor α (ERα) in the ovaries of postmenopausal women is a very up-to-date topic in the aspect of using estrogens therapy in the clinical situations of different type. In ovaries of reproductive age women ERα is present in ovary stroma, theca and granulosa cells, ovary surface epithelium (OSE) and in corpus luteum. The ovaries of postmenopausal women are smaller t...

in this work, we tried to know something more about the embryotoxicity effects of the doses of 50, 200, 400 mg/kg/day of ranitidine of (h2 antihistaminic agent) by intraperitoneal administration on mice. the studies were performed on albino mice kept under specific conditions and a constant dark-light cycle at 24+1c and 55+5% relative humidity. generally, the animals were acclimatized for four ...

beta-Hexosaminidase (Hex) catalyzes the hydrolysis of terminal sugar residues from a number of substrates such as GM2 gangliosides, glycoproteins, glycolipids, and glycosaminoglycans. As an enzyme present in lysosomes of epithelial cells of the adult rat epididymis, it serves to degrade substances endocytosed from the epididymal lumen. In this way, it modifies and creates a luminal environment ...

In order to verify the concept that growth hormone and prolactin are contained in two different populations of acidophils, sections of Bouin-fixed rat hypophyses were stained immunochemically. For this purpose the histochemical demonstration of peroxidase was utilized after sequential application to the tissue section of rabbit antiserum to human growth hormone (or antiserum to rat prolactin) f...

The post-natal growth of muscles and tendons is of interest both from the anatomical and from the orthopaedic point of view. But whereas much information is available on the growth alld especially the differentiation of muscle, tendinous tissue has been relatively neglected. Ill fact, current opinion about tendon growth is largely based on the analogy of muscle. Present knowledge of the develop...

Histochemical staining of bladder tissue demonstrates a discrete layer of mucopolysaccharide (mu&) on the sur$ace of human and rabbit bladders. Studies have shown that an intact mucin layer may be important in helping the bladder to resist bacterial infections. This report correlates vesical over-distention with destruction of the muck layer in the rabbit bladder. These findings suggest that ve...