The 5-deoxyisoflavones, afrormosin and formononetin have been isolated from healthy leaves of Onobrychis viciifolia. In addition to these compounds, several other flavonoid (isoliquiritigenin; liquiritigenin; garbanzol) and isoflavonoid (medicarpin; vestitol) derivatives including the new isoflavanone, vestitone (7,2'-dihydroxy-4'-methoxyisoflavanone), are present in leaves inoculated with the ...

Myoid cells of the human caput epididymidis are replaced by large cells with ultrastructural features of smooth muscle cells (SMC) in chronic obstruction of the male genital tract. To evaluate whether these cellular changes are associated with different functional phenotypes we analysed the immunohistochemical expression of myosin heavy chain isoforms and of extracellular matrix (EM) components...

Background: The main aim of the present study was to evaluate the ameliorative effect of curcumin on aflatoxin-induced changes in caput and cauda epididymis of mice. Materials and Methods: Aflatoxin was obtained by growing Aspergillus parasiticus in sucrose magnesium sulphate potassium nitrate yeast extract (SMKY) liquid medium. Pure curcumin (97% purity) was purchased from Hi-Media Laboratorie...

To examine the content and the composition of free amino acids in the intraluminal fluid of rat epididymis, the fluids were obtained by light pressure on the dissected tissues. The amount of the total free amino acids in the pressed fluid from the caput epididymis was significantly higher than those of the cauda epididymis and the testis. Glu and Gln were predominant amino acids in the caput, a...

The aim of the study was to compare the localisation of oestrogen receptors a and b (ERa and ERb) in the human and rat epididymides. In the human epididymis the immunoexpression for ERa was detected in the nuclei of the caput epithelial cells, while positive reaction for ERb was observed in the nuclei of the cauda epithelial cells. In the rat epididymis, immunoexpression for ERa showed nuclei o...