Iron deficiency, causing maternal sideropenic anemia, is one of the most frequent nutritive disorder that develops during the pregnancy. We collected 30 placentas from anemic mothers and 30 placentas from mothers belonging to the control group. Terminal villi (magnification 10x) and terminal villi capillaries (magnification 40x) were stereologically analyzed and numerically determined.In the pl...

The intestine of adult indigenous goat of Assam (Capra hircus) was studied by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) for elucidating the morphology of intestinal mucosa as well as the morphology of gutassociated lymphoid tissue including Peyer’s patches (PP) and solitary lymphoid nodule. SEM of intestines revealed the presence of villi in the small intestinal mucosa. Goblet cells were noticed as wh...

Placental villi play pivotal roles in feto-maternal transportation and phospholipids constitute a major part of the villous membrane. We have been developing and optimizing an imaging system based on a matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI)-based mass spectrometer, which provides clear two-dimensional molecular distribution patterns using highly sensitive mass spectrometry from mix...

Background: Regarding to the considerable application of microwave in everyday life, their effects on biological tissues are still controversial.This study determines the effect of microwave on morphometric changes in rabbit prostate. Materials and Methods: 18 New Zealand male rabbits were divided into three groups (control, 3 w and 6 w),the animals in the control group were not exposed to micr...

chorionic villus sampling (cvs) is a new method and its true risk of fetal loss and complications is not still clearly determined. the objective of this study was to review the clinical pregnancy outcome of transabdominal cvs (ta-cvs) performed on women with minor beta thalassemia. ta-cvs performed on 300 women with a singleton pregnancy and we could follow 213 women until delivery. data regard...

The concept of continuous epithelial renewal in the gastrointestinal tract was introduced at the end of the nineteenth century (Patzelt, 1882; Bizzozero, 1888; Schaffer, 1891), and since then labelling experiments with tritium-labelled thymidine have established that epithelial cells are produced in the crypts of the small intestinal mucosa, migrate up onto the villi and are lost at the tips, b...

The primary objective of this study was to characterize an in-vitro model of the human placenta using morphological, biochemical and physiological parameters. Placental villi were obtained from normal first trimester and term pregnancies. The villi were incubated with Dulbecco's modified Eagle's medium: Ham's F12 nutrient mixture in a shaking water bath at 37 degrees C for up to 310 min. The vi...

Villi arachnoidales undergoes in the course of life changes in relation to the skull bones and sinuses. Our aim was to determine the relations of the villi arachnoidales to the skull bone and/or sinuses from the neonatal period to adults. The investigations were performed on collection of 50 disarticulated macerated skull bones from the new-born to 30 years of age and on 20 skulls from individu...