background: bone morphogenetic protein 15 (bmp15) is a growth factor derived from oocyte and is essential for in vivo ovarian follicular growth and in this study, its effects on the improvement of growth and development of follicles during in vitro culture of neonatal mouse ovaries was investigated. methods: two week old mice were cultured for 7 days in the basic culture media with or without f...

Evidence shows that luteinising hormone (LH) participates in enhancing the transition from early to antral stage of folliculogenesis. Functional LH receptor was demonstrated be expressed, albeit at a very low level, even smaller follicles during phase traditionally considered gonadotropin-independent suggesting role for accelerating rate progression non-growing and primary preantral/antral stag...

PCO affects about 10% of females. Increase in the burden of PCOS has led to a considerable amount of research into its risk factors, pathophysiology and the management [2]. There have been numerous theories that have been put forward for describing the etiology for an ovulation in PCO including; an excess of small antral follicles, hyperandrogenaemia, hyperinsulinaemia and dysfunctional feedbac...

Aim: To evaluate the effect of total salpingectomy on ovarian reserve and function during abdominal hysterectomy. Method: Twenty five patients undergoing total abdominal hysterectomy for dysfunctional uterine bleeding were randomly allocated into two groups; group (I) 13 patients undergoing total abdominal hysterectomy with bilateral excision of both tubes. Group (II) 12 patients undergoing cla...

Anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH) is a glycoprotein that secreted by the granulosa cells of pre-antral and antral ovarian follicles have diameter <8 mm. By inhibiting both initial recruitments primordial into primary also sensitivity to follicle stimulating (FSH) in cyclic recruitment AMH acts as “follicular gatekeeper”. recognized an early marker decline follicular pool. Although levels are ...

Chronic gastritis is a very common disorder which is commonly caused by Helicobacter pylori. Histopathological examination is the mainstay of the diagnosis. We evaluated 300 gastric antral biopsies using revised Sydney system and concluded that it helps to analyse gastric biopsies in a very comprehensive manner. It was seen that H. pylori, chronic inflammatory infiltrate, neutrophilic infiltrat...