background: no comprehensive study has been conducted on risk factors of sexual dysfunction in women with diabetes mellitus. objectives: the aim of this study was to consider all possible influencing variables including hormonal, physical and, psychological status, socioeconomic status, and dietary intake to get more accurate and reliable results. patients and methods: sexual function was asses...

the objective of this study was to find a relationship between blood gas parameters and thyroid hormoneactivity with ascites syndrome in broiler chickens exposed to cold temperature and receiving a high qualitydiet. one hundred and sixty one-day-old broiler chicks were randomly divided in two equal groups. toincrease the incidence of ascites, chicks of group 1 were fed ad libitum with a higher ...

to study the effect of dietary animal and plant lipids on gonadal differents and sex steroid hormones levels of blood in rainbow trout (oncorhynchus mykiss), the four diets was formulated based on 15% fat. the control uses 100% oil, fish oil was treated in the first, second and third respectively 25% and 75% fish oil, soybean oil, canola and cotton were used. after six weeks of feeding fish wit...

BONE: AN INTRODUCTION To THE PHYSIOLOGY OF SKELETAL TISSUE. By Franklin C. McLean and Marshall R. Urist. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1961. xvii, 261 pp. $6.00. The book is one of the series of The Scientists Library: Biology and Medicine. The purpose of the series is to provide authoritative information about the growth and status of various subjects in such a fashion that the individ...

alpha estradiol has only 1/200 the potency of estradiol-17/3 in the vaginal cornification bioassay. Furthermore, one cannot make general statements about potencies of estrogens, especially since each estrogen is potent for a specific metabolic end-point. Finally, it should be pointed out that modern endocrinology leans heavily upon biochemistry and mechanisms of actions. In both of these respec...