this study was designed to determine the frequency of y chromosome azf (azoospermia factor ) subregions, microdeletions in patients with idiopathic nonobstructive azoospermia and severe oligozoospermia. subjects included 40 men who had been referred to infertility clinics for assisted reproduction, 37 were azoospermic and 3 had severe oligospermia. medical history and physical exam revealed no ...

We previously found that drinking beer reduces chromosome aberrations in blood lymphocytes that were collect and irradiated in vitro. In this study, human whole-blood was in vitro exposed to 200kVp X-rays or 50keV/microm carbon ions in the presence or absence of beer, ethanol and beta-pseudouridine (one of the beer components). All three agents reduced the chromosome aberrations (dicentric) cau...

background: about 15% of couples have infertility problems which 40% of them are related to the male factors. genetic factors are candidate for about 10% of male infertility conditions. among these, azfa, azfb, azfc and azfd regions on the yq are considered most important for spermatogenesis. microdeletions of these regions are thought to be involved in some cases of azoospermic or oligospermic...

kermani sheep breed is one of the major sheep breeds in iran, especially in kerman province for which no study has yet been carried out through y-chromosome specific microsatellite markers. throughout this study, amplification quality related to 17 bovine y-chromosome specific microsatellites was evaluated for the mentioned sheep breed. one hundred males and twenty females of non-related animal...

INTRODUCTION Ring chromosome 15 is a rare disorder, with only a few over 40 cases reported in the literature. There are only two previous reports of cases where patients with ring chromosome 15 have been followed-up. CASE PRESENTATION We report here on the 20-year clinical and cytogenetic follow-up of a patient with a ring chromosome 15. Our patient, a Caucasoid Asian woman, presented with sh...

Somatic chromosome spreads from maize (Zea mays L.) plants containing B-A translocation chromosomes undergoing the chromosome type breakage-fusion-bridge cycle were examined by FISH. The size and type of extra chromosomes varied among cells of the same individual. A collection of minichromosomes derived from the chromosome type breakage-fusion-bridge cycle was examined for the presence of stabl...

Dose from radiation exposure can be estimated from dicentric chromosome (DC) frequencies in metaphase cells of peripheral blood lymphocytes. We automated DC detection by extracting features in Giemsa-stained metaphase chromosome images and classifying objects by machine learning (ML). DC detection involves (i) intensity thresholded segmentation of metaphase objects, (ii) chromosome separation b...

chromosome-centric human proteome project (c-hpp) is a recent initiative to rationalize and analyze gene-protein and protein-protein interactions in normal and disease conditions. this initiative is aimed to generate the proteomic atlas explaining the molecular architecture of the human body and was initiated in response to the hurdles identified during analyzing the human genome project (hgp)....