objective: to compare the effectiveness of letrozole and clomiphene citrate (cc) on uterine blood flow rate in patients with unexplained infertility. materials and methods: in this randomized clinical trial 90 women with unexplained infertility referred to a university clinic from january 2011- december 2013 were enrolled. thirty patients were randomized for letrozole, 30 patients for cc and 3o...

PURPOSE We investigated the composition of collagen and glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) in the corpus cavernosum (CC) and tunica albuginea (TA) of normal human penises. MATERIALS AND METHODS Penises were obtained from a 6-month-old child (group 1), a 2-year-old child (group 2), 18 to 34-year-old adults (group 3), 37 to 53-year-old adults (group 4) and 22 fetuses at 17.2 to 33.3 menstrual weeks (gro...

background: the objective of this prospective randomized study was to make a comparison between the effects of letrozole and tamoxifen (tmx) in ovulation induction in clomiphene (cc)-resistant women with polycystic ovarian syndrome (pcos). methods: the study comprised a total of 60 infertile women (180 cycles) with cc-resistant pcos selected from the clinics affiliated to the department of obst...

BACKGROUND Most studies that attempt to clarify structural abnormalities related to functional disconnection in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) have focused on exploring pathological changes in cortical gray matter. However, white matter fibers connecting these cerebral areas may also be abnormal. PURPOSE To investigate the regional changes of white matter volume in patients with AD co...

The aim of this study was to analyze the antimicrobial activity and substantivity of Uncaria tomentosa Willd DC (cat's claw, CC) in root dentin contaminated with Enterococcus faecalis. Forty-eight human premolars were contaminated with E. faecalis (ATCC 29212) and randomly divided into four groups according to the irrigant used during chemomechanical preparation (CMP): CC group: 2% CC gel; CHX ...

INTRODUCTION Cervical cancer (CC) is a malignant tumor which for many years has been a serious epidemiological problem in Poland. This issue is important because CC is the second most common type of malignant tumor, after breast cancer, and the second most common cause of death among women. The aim of this study was to assess the knowledge and awareness of women living in the Wielkopolska regio...

In this study, we aimed to investigate the intrinsic hippocampal functional connectivity (FC) network and its relationship with prospective memory in patients with breast cancer suffering from chemotherapy-induced cognitive impairment (CICI). Thirty-four breast cancer patients before and after adjuvant chemotherapy (CB and CC, respectively) and 31 age- and education-matched cognitively normal (...

Introduction. The role of chronic cholestasis (CC) in liver injury and fibrosis remains unclear. The aims of this study were to define the role of endothelial nitric oxide synthase (e-NOS) in CC and the protective effect of N-acetyl-L-cysteine (NAC) in liver and kidney injury. Materials and Methods. Group A (sham group); Group B (CBDL); and Group C (CBDL + NAC). Group C received daily dosage of...

PURPOSE Gastrointestinal carcinomas are ~1.5-2-fold more prevalent in obese populations compared to nonobese ones. Possible factors playing an important role in the association between obesity and cancer include insulin, insulin like growth factor-I, sex steroids and adipocytokines. This study investigated the omentin levels, a novel adipocytokine, in patients with stage III colon carcinomas (C...