background: infertility is defined as the inability to achieve the pregnancy within a year of unprotected intercourse. infertility is a complex issue and different factors such as stress oxidative can be involved in this problem. so, any attempt to neutralize oxidative stress would be helpful in the treatment of infertility. melatonin is a known scavenger of free radicals. objective: the aim of...

OBJECTIVE To assess the effect of smoking on sperm vitality, sperm DNA integrity, semen reactive oxygen species, and zinc levels in fertile men. METHODS One-hundred sixty men were investigated. They were divided into 2 equal groups: healthy fertile nonsmokers and healthy fertile smokers. They were subjected to history taking, clinical examination, and semen analysis. In their semen, sperm hyp...

BACKGROUND This article analyzes several key issues in the debate: the acceptability of in vitro fertilization; regulation of assisted reproduction and the possibilities of reimbursement for assisted reproduction treatment in Lithuania. METHOD Two groups of respondents participated in the survey: fertile women and women with fertility disorders. 93 completed questionnaires from women with fer...

Background: Female sexual dysfunction(FSD) is defined as sexual desire disorders,sexual Arousal disorders,orgasmic disorders and sexual pain disorders that result from anatomical,physiological ,medical and psychological multiple factors and cause personal severe discomfortibility and affect quality of life and relationship between individuals. The aim of this study is to compare the prevalence ...

BACKGROUND We aimed to determine whether children conceived with ovarian stimulation alone (OS(A)) would differ phenotypically and biochemically from naturally conceived children of fertile and subfertile parents. METHODS Healthy pre-pubertal children aged 3-10 years, born at term, after singleton pregnancies were recruited in Auckland (New Zealand) and were allocated into three groups: (i) c...

BACKGROUND Infertility is defined as the inability to achieve the pregnancy within a year of unprotected intercourse. Infertility is a complex issue and different factors such as stress oxidative can be involved in this problem. So, any attempt to neutralize oxidative stress would be helpful in the treatment of infertility. Melatonin is a known scavenger of free radicals. OBJECTIVE The aim of...

toxic effects of malathion and endosulfan to fertile chicken eggs were determined. in-jection of 1.25, 2.5, 5.0 and 10.0 mg/egg of malathion into yolk sac of fertile eggs prior to incubation caused mortality of 10.0, 30.0, 83.33 and 93.33% respectively. similar trend was observed with injection of endosulfan doses. malathion and endosulfan at 1.25 mg/egg caused no pronounced ld50 increase in mo...