Cambridge University Press по журналам "Reproductive Medicine Review"
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(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 1997-10-01)Ovarian tissue freezing has been used successfully in animals and it has recently begun to be offered clinically to young women who have medical conditions with a high risk of sterility. Although no frozen human ovarian ...
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(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 1996-07-01)Whereas the direct action of sex steroids, namely of androgens, on prostate cell division was questioned as early as in the 1970s, and remains so, the interest in prostatic growth factors (GFs) is rather recent but has ...
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(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 1992-07-01)Over the past four years, major advances in the understanding of the aetiology and pathogenesis of the androgen insensitivity syndrome (AIS) have occurred. This review aims to summarize current information on clinical, ...
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(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 1993-07-01)Since the discovery of the structure and function of steroids over 60 years ago, it has long been recognized that synthetic antagonists of the natural hormones would have potential therapeutic uses. Antagonists of ...
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(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 1997-03-01)In summary, apoptosis is an important concept in understanding many facets of human reproduction. Recent advances in the understanding of molecular mechanisms of apoptosis will allow us to understand this physiologically ...
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(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 1995-10-01)Epidemiological studies relating cigarette smoking to the ability to conceive and maintain a pregnancy provide information on the clinical significance of smoking on reproductive health. Cigarette smoking by females has ...
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(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 1992-03-01)Uterine growth factors appear to play a role in the regulation of pregnancy. One of these, colony stimulating factor-1 (CSF-1), synthesized by the uterine epithelium under the control of female sex steroids, has been shown ...
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(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 1997-03-01)A growing body of information now supports the theory that oestrogen replacement therapy can substantially eliminate or attenuate the complications incurred as a result of the menopause. In particular, data support the ...
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(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 1993-03-01)Congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) is a group of diseases which result from reduced or absent activity of one of the five enzymes of cortisol synthesis in the adrenal cortex. Each enzyme deficiency produces characteristic ...
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(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 1993-10-01)Several conclusions can be drawn from a review of the formation, function and regression of the corpus luteum. Ovulation and luteinization encompass degenerative and growth changes. Inflammatory conditions associated with ...
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(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 1994-03-01)Tumours of the reproductive tract present with a great variety and diversity in males as well as in females. They originate from tissues which belong to different embryonic sheets or stem cells, and may appear at various ...
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(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 1995-07-01)Experimental animal models have shown that the in vitro embryo culture involved in many treatments for infertility results in a dramatic reduction in embryo viability. Recent advances in methodology such as RT-PCR for ...
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(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 1993-03-01)The diagnosis of inherited disease in affected embryos before implantation is now possible using in vitro fertilization (IVF), embryo biopsy and DNA analysis. This enables pregnancies to be established with unaffected ...
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(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 1992-03-01)Spermatozoa binding to the zona pellucida is an early, critical event leading to fertilization and early pre-embryo development. Fertilization involves a complex and orderly sequence of events that is completed at syngamy, ...
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(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 1992-07-01)Embryo cryopreservation is a well established technique and is used widely for embryo banking of genetically valuable strains of mice, the transport and proliferation of farm animals and as a valuable adjunct to human in ...
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(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 1992-07-01)Before sexual differentiation occurs at seven weeks, the urological ridges develop in the embryo. These contain the primitive gonads, the mesonephros (embryonic kidneys) and the paired Wolffian (mesonephric) ducts, along ...
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(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 1994-03-01)The human endometrium produces a number of proteins which are at least partly specific to that tissue. Two of these proteins have been the subject of much recent work. They were originally called ‘placental protein 12’ and ...
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(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 1997-10-01)Despite intense clinical interest, increasing numbers of infertile couples with endometriosis-associated infertility and ever more sophisticated diagnostic technology, optimal treatment of the infertility remains frustrating. ...
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(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 1992-03-01)Endothelin-1 (ET-1) is a 21 amino acid peptide, first isolated in 1988 from porcine aortic endothelial cells in tissue culture (Figure 1). The peptide was shown to be the most potent known vasoconstrictor of porcine coronary ...
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