Asymptomatic Leukocytospermia and Assisted Reproductive Technology Outcomes: Reason for concern? [PDF]
Leukocytospermia, defined as ≥1×106 white blood cells (WBC)/ml of semen, is a condition frequently observed in infertile men. While symptomatic leukocytospermia is often associated with genital tract infections and managed accordingly, the clinical ...
Marie-Christin Reich+3 more
doaj +1 more source
Effect of Vitamin D Supplementation on Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection Outcomes: A Randomized Double-Blind Placebo-Controlled Trial [PDF]
Background Despite numerous studies indicating an imperative role for reproduction, however, the role of Vitamin D supplementation on outcomes of assisted reproductive techniques remains controversial.
Sara Abedi, Mahboubeh Taebi
doaj +1 more source
Assisted conception and Embryo Research with reference to the tenets of Catholic Christianity [PDF]
Religion has a considerable influence over the public’s attitudes towards science and technologies. The objective of the paper is to understand the ethical and religious problems concerning the use of embryo for research in assisting conception for ...
Mitra, Piyali
core
Embryo donation families : a follow-up in middle childhood [PDF]
Couples who conceive using donated embryos rear a child to whom they are genetically unrelated. It has been suggested that this may have negative consequences for parenting and child development.
Keeley, Sarah, MacCallum, Fiona
core +1 more source
Breast cancer metastasis is associated with myeloid cell dysregulation and the lung‐specific accumulation of tumor‐supportive Gr1+ cells. Gr1+ cells support metastasis, in part, through a CHI3L1‐mediated mechanism, which can be targeted and inhibited with cargo‐free, polymeric nanoparticles.
Jeffrey A. Ma+9 more
wiley +1 more source
Sperm chromatin dispersion test before sperm preparation is predictive of clinical pregnancy in cases of unexplained infertility treated with intrauterine insemination and induction with clomiphene citrate [PDF]
Background/aims: A large proportion of men with normal sperm results as analyzed using conventional techniques have fragmented DNA in their spermatozoa.
De Croo, Ilse+4 more
core +2 more sources
Advanced Sperm Selection Techniques for Assisted Reproduction [PDF]
Male infertility accounts for approximately 40% of infertility cases. There are many causes of male infertility, including environmental factors, age, lifestyle, infections, varicocele, and cancerous pathologies. Severe oligozoospermia, cryptozoospermia, and azoospermia (obstructive and non-obstructive) are identified as severe male factor infertility,
Federica Cariati+9 more
openaire +3 more sources
This study develops a semi‐supervised classifier integrating multi‐genomic data (1404 training/5893 validation samples) to improve homologous recombination deficiency (HRD) detection in breast cancer. Our method demonstrates prognostic value and predicts chemotherapy/PARP inhibitor sensitivity in HRD+ tumours.
Rong Zhu+12 more
wiley +1 more source
Role of hysteroscopy prior to assisted reproductive techniques
There have been numerous advances in the area of assisted reproduction. Among the various reasons of implantation failure, intrauterine lesions play an important role.The aim of the present study is to evaluate the role of hysteroscopy prior to any assisted reproductive technique.It is a retrospective study of 292 women who attended our infertility ...
Nandita Palshetkar+2 more
openaire +3 more sources
This study investigates gene expression differences between two major pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) subtypes, B‐cell precursor ALL, and T‐cell ALL, using a data‐driven approach consisting of biostatistics and machine learning methods. Following analysis of a discovery dataset, we find a set of 14 expression markers differentiating the ...
Mona Nourbakhsh+8 more
wiley +1 more source