Adenomatoid odontogenic tumor (AOT) is an uncommon, slow-growing, noninvasive mostly in the anterior maxilla with three well-recognized clinico-pathological variants: follicular, extra-follicular, and peripheral. Extra-follicular variant presents as a well-defined, unilocular, radiolucency between, above, or superimposed on roots of erupted tooth. A 19 years female reported chief complaint loos...

BACKGROUND Enhanced vascularization appears to be important for follicular selection and maturation in both spontaneous and stimulated IVF cycles. Nitric oxide, formed in vivo from L-arginine, may play a key role in follicular maturation and ovulation. METHODS To evaluate the role of L-arginine supplementation in controlled ovarian hyperstimulation, 37 IVF patients were divided into two group...

The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of oral contraceptive (OC) use on salivary secretory immunoglobulin A (SIgA) levels at rest and in response to an acute bout of moderate-vigorous exercise during 2 phases of the 4-week OC cycle corresponding to different phases of the synthetic menstrual cycle. Ten healthy active females completed a cycling at 70% peak oxygen uptake for 45 min...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the defense cells changes of cervical mucous during follicular and luteal phases of estrus cycle in river buffalo. Reproductive organs of the adult and apparently healthy female buffaloes were collected from the slaughterhouse. By visual investigation of both the ovaries for presence of corpus luteum and growing follicles, the luteal and follicular phase of...

We monitored follicular development by ultrasonography on 40 anovulatory women on the day when we switched from HMG to HCG, and measured the maximum follicular diameter (mFD) and the sum total of follicular cross sectional area (FA) and examined the correlations of both mFD and FA with ovulation or OHSS. The ovulatory rate with mFD of more than 18mm was 100%. The correlation coefficients betwee...