Defects Found in Drafted Men

A Drafted PM Glossary

Most dictionaries and glossaries of terms today are not structured. They contain many different terms, arranged in alphabetical sequence, with little or no attempt to show how the terms are related. A new IFIP "Glossary of Terms used in Production Control" has now been produced, which is structured. It is based on a classification of Production Management, of which Production Control is a part,...

FABP9 Mutations Are Not Detected in Cases of Infertility due to Sperm Morphological Defects in Iranian Men

Meiotic anomalies in infertile men with severe spermatogenic defects.

BACKGROUND This study was aimed at evaluating the rate of pairing failure in pachytene spermatocytes of patients presenting either an obstructive (O) or a non-obstructive (NO) infertility. METHODS Forty-one patients and 13 controls underwent testicular biopsy. Among the patients, 19 had an O infertility and 22 a NO infertility. Preparations of all patients and controls were Giemsa-stained, an...

Diagnosis of genetic defects through parallel assessment of PLCζ and CAPZA3 in infertile men with history of failed oocyte activation

Objective(s): Phospholipase C ζ (PLCζ) is considered as a nominee for sperm associated oocyte activating factors and is located back-to-back with CAPZA3, an actin-capping protein controlling actin polymerization during spermiogenesis. They contain a common bidirectional promoter. The objective of this study was to identify individuals with parallel low expression of PLCζ and CAPZA3 mRNA, in hop...

Apaf-1 deficiency and neural tube closure defects are found in fog mice.

The forebrain overgrowth mutation (fog) was originally described as a spontaneous autosomal recessive mutation mapping to mouse chromosome 10 that produces forebrain defects, facial defects, and spina bifida. Although the fog mutant has been characterized and available to investigators for several years, the underlying mutation causing the pathology has not been known. Because of its phenotypic...