The aim of this study was to investigate 2 quantification criteria to evaluate the developmental condition of follicles cohort and clarify their impacts upon the determining of human chorionic gonadotropin trigger timing and the reproductive outcome: the proportion of mature follicles in growing follicles cohort on the day of human chorionic gonadotropin trigger and the peak estradiol level per...

Rabbit ova were transferred to both sides of synchronous pseudopregnant recipients; on one side the ova were transferred to the ovarian bursa to assess the efficiency of ovum reception, and on the other side were deposited within the Fallopian tube to provide informa¬ tion on ovum transport. The recipients were treated with oestrogens, progesterone, or combinations of these hormones. Ova were a...

background: poor ovarian response phenomenon has been observed in some of the in vitro fertilization-embryo transfer patients. some investigations found that follicle stimulating hormone receptor (fshr) gene plays a role in the process, but no direct evidence shows the correlation between genotypes of fshr and ovarian response. objective: exploring the molecular mechanism behind the mutation of...

The complexity of the mechanics involved in the mammalian reproductive process is evident. Neither an ovum nor an embryo is self-propelled, but move through the oviduct or uterus due to the peristaltic action of the tube walls, imposed pressure gradients, and perhaps ciliary motion. Here we use the method of regularized Stokeslets to model the transport of an ovum or an embryo within a peristal...

Growing mouse oocytes and fertilized ova were injected with chicken ovalbumin messenger RNA (mRNAov) and chicken conalbumin mRNA (mRNAcon) and cultured in vitro. Estimation of mRNAov and mRNAcon stability by hybridization of cDNAov and cDNAcon to extracted mRNA from injected oocytes and fertilized ova indicated a half-life of 147 and 366 h in the oocyte and 5 and 3 h in the fertilized ovum resp...