Background: The buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) is the animal with special production characteristics in producing milk and meat has a critical role in rural industry in Iran. The most problem of this specie is its low reproductive output. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effect of bovine cumulus co-culture on maturation rate of Buffalo oocyte.Materials and Methods: Ovaries were colle...

Background: In vitro culture of ovarian follicles may preserve fertility in women with premature ovarian failure due to cancer .It seems that creation a condition that could maintain cellular communications and supports growth of follicles to produce mature oocytes appear to be essential. Nitric oxide (NO) has been recently shown to act with a dual action in mouse oocyte meiotic maturation depe...

Crude oil samples recovered from three oilfields distributed within the central Niger Delta were used to investigate biological marker fingerprints, sources of organic matter, conditions deposition, and thermal maturation. This was achieved by application gas chromatography-mass spectrometric (GC-MS) analyses on saturated components crude oils. The ratios show low sterane/hopane (steranes/hopan...

the majority of cancer treatments are invasive. gonadal injuries cause reductions in fertility which results in lack of hope for conception in cancer patients and frustration for their partners. fortunately, current advancements in cryopreservation and transplantation sciences regarding fertility preservation lead to cryostorage of gonads and preservation prior to the onset of chemo- and radiot...

conclusions the present study showed that vitrification using cryotop and freezing medium can damage oocytes by reducing the maturation and fertilization rates in both developmental stages. results vitrification caused a significant reduction in the maturation rate of oocytes. of those that matured, the fertilization rate of vitrified ivm-mii (44.1%) and ov-mii oocytes (50%) was not significant...

validation of predicting fatness methods in the iranian girls with respect to the maturity process could help to identify anthropometric risk factors. this study evaluate the accuracy of four body composition prediction equations in the teenager students in hamadan city .method: the anthropometry profile of 266 adolescent girls (12-16 ys) including ,weight (55.69±10.18 kg),body mass index (21.9...