OBJECTIVE To compare the effects of electro-acupuncture with oral estradiol and superficial needle insertion on hot flushes in postmenopausal women. MATERIAL AND METHODS Forty-five postmenopausal women with vasomotor symptoms were randomized to electro-acupuncture, superficial needle insertion or oral estradiol treatment during 12 weeks, with 6 months' follow-up. The number and severity of fl...

The period of normal female anatomy and physiology development is indicated through six stages: prepuberty, puberty, reproductive period, climacteric menopause, senium. can be said to the most important in a woman's life which last approximately 33 years. Towards end this it called transition from senium period. In general, symptoms caused by menopause are irregular menstruation, hot flushes (h...

It is shown that a sequential development of a serie-s of enzyme systems occurs in the peel of the apple as the respiration climacteric develops in the wvhole fruit. The sequence of development of these systems, i.e. acetate incorporation into lipid, production of ethylene, inoorporation of amino acid into protein and, finally, the decarboxylation of added malate (ma,late effect) is the same as...

Menopause is the permanent cessation of menstruation resulting from loss of ovarian follicular activity which happens as a result of depletion of primary follicles which is basically an aging effect. Depletion of ovarian follicles is reflected as declined production of oestradiol which is currently known to be central to the morphologic and physiological changes that happen during the climacter...

\V;hether the toimato fruit is left to ripen on or off the plant, a marked increase in its respiratory rate knowni as the climacteric is observed as it passes from the mature green to the ripe stage (4, 7, 15, 19). A number of hypotheses have been advanced to exllain this climacteric rise in respiration (3, 10). It has been suggested that the climacteric rise is caused by increased utilization ...

The ripening of fruit is accompanied by a group of physiological and chemical changes whichl are characteristic and moderately uniform as between different species of plants. Typical coimiponents of the ripening process are pectic transformations which lead to fruit softening, changes in fruit color, often with the disappearance of pigment such as chlorophyll and the appearance of new secondary...