background: male infertility accounts for 30-50% of all infertilities among couples. iranian traditional medicine (itm) stressed the importance of nutrition in the prevention and treatment of male infertility. many iranian traditional physicians have described the traits of specific foods for prevention and treatment of male infertility. objective: to explore the principles and roles of foods r...

The hormonal factors and neural circuitry that control copulation are similar across rodent species, although there are differences in specific behavior patterns. Both estradiol (E) and dihydrotestosterone (DHT) contribute to the activation of mating, although E is more important for copulation and DHT for genital reflexes. Hormonal activation of the medial preoptic area (MPOA) is most effectiv...

Schools are recognized as one of the most important settings for promoting social and emotional well-being among children and adolescents. This clustered randomized controlled trial evaluated Zippy's Friends, an international school-based emotional well-being programme, with 766 children from designated disadvantaged schools. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the immediate and long term...

we collected 60 adult males and 85 adult females of trapelus lessonae de filippi, 1863 in early may 2008 from central iranian plateau to study sexual dimorphism in morphological traits as well as female reproductive traits. size-related sexual dimorphism occurred in all the compared body dimensions. the largest female was 83.88 mm in snout-vent length, and the largest male was 73.12 mm. as well...

objective : the objective of this research was to study the sexual perception and practices among people aged 45 years and above and the associated socio-demographic factors. materials and methods : a cross sectional study was done on 473 middle aged and elderly people living in klang valley in 2005. they were married and literate.  data were collected by means of face to face interview using s...

M of lack of estrogen representation, whether they be failure of synthesis or insensitivity of response, have provided new, and in some respects counterintuitive, insights into the roles of estrogens in both males and females. Among the natural mutations, there is currently 1 man identified with a mutation of the estrogen receptor a (ERa) and up to 10 individuals with mutations of the gene enco...