Background Fertility preservation for female cancer patients prior to cancer therapy has emerged as an essential component of comprehensive patient care. In the US, approximately 6% of women diagnosed with invasive cancer between 2007 and 2011 that were under 45 years old. The incidence of cancers in reproductive age women signifies a need for fertility preservation options and this need is inc...

Background: Intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) has become a useful technology to produce foals when availability of semen is limited or when in-vitro fertilization is desired, as is the need for subfertile mares. However, its application into clinical practice is challenging. The purpose of this review was to discuss some fundamental molecular aspects of oocyte maturation that should be co...

Content Based Image Retrival needs relevance feedback to obtain more accurate results. By building a repository with KBDA, very good results may be obtained with the use of a Query Semantic Feature Vector.

Breakage of needles is one of the most frustrating and distressing complications of local anesthesia. It is also one of the easiest to prevent. This article describes the use of the C-arm digital fluoroscope for retrival of a broken dental needle from the pterygomandibular space.

this study investigated the effect of different harvesting techniques on the recovery rate and quality of bovine cumulus oocyte complexes (cocs) and their subsequent developmental competence including in vitro maturation, fertilization and blastocyst formation. the cocs were retrieved from slaughter ovaries using aspiration, slicing, or aspiration followed by slicing. the cocs were examined mic...