reproductive abnormalities cause major losses of sheep production. abattoir materials were used todetermine the extent of reproductive wastage. reproductive tracts were collected from 524 ewes slaughtered at urmia slaughter-house in urmia, northwest of iran, during a period of 12 months. overall, 30.10% of the ewes examined were pregnant. a total of 149 (28.44%) tracts developed acquired reprod...

background people living with hiv (plhiv) are highly stigmatized and consequently hard-to-access by researchers and importantly, public health outreach in iran, possibly due to the existing socio-cultural situation in this country. the present study aimed to evaluate the sexual and reproductive health needs of plhiv in tehran, the capital of iran.   methods as a mixed-method descriptive study, ...

this study aims at investigating the effectiveness of utilizing barley as a flushing ration with an energizing source and soybean meal-based diets as a flushing ration with a protein source the sexual and breeding behaviors in ghezel sheep. to this end, 36 three and half-year old ewes (51±1.5 kilograms) with the record of giving birth to two lambs and 6 three-year old (89±2.5 kilograms) rams we...

this study investigated the effect of dietary supplementation with calcium salts of fatty acids using 48 afshari ewes randomly allocated to four treatments. all groups used in flushing period and only the source of energy were different between rations. the ewes were divided into four groups: a-barely grain; group b-received 5% of csfa with source of flaxseed oil (w3); group c-received 5% of cs...

Sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) are centrally important to health. However, there have been significant shortcomings in implementing SRHR to date. In the context of health systems reform and universal health coverage/care (UHC), this paper explores the following questions. What do these changes in health systems thinking mean for SRHR and gender equity in health in the context ...

We compared sexual and reproductive health (SRH)-related knowledge, attitude and behavior among unmarried rural-urban female migrants in Shanghai coming from different regions of China. A total of 944 unmarried rural-urban female migrants were recruited from three districts of Shanghai. We used an interviewer-administered structured questionnaire to collect information from each participant and...

objective: doxorubicin (dox) is a broad spectrum chemotherapeutic agent used in the treatment of several malignancies. the use of dox in clinical chemotherapy has been restricted due to its diverse toxicities, including reproductive toxicity. crataegus monogyna (c. monogyna) is one of the oldest medicinal plants that have been shown to be cytoprotective because of scavenging free radicals. the ...

background: research in reproductive health (rh) has been located in the core of women’s health research. providing accurate information through conducting scientific and controlled research is essential, but increased number of research in the world especially in developing countries in rh area in order to introduce advanced technologies has been resulted in much unethical, illegal and abusive...

An enormous diversity of antigenically distinct proteins is found in seminal plasma. These include proteases, protease inhibitors, signal transduction molecules, protein kinases and phosphatases, transporter proteins, structural molecules, and immune response proteins. Sperm, too, carry a plethora of surface proteins; these mediate species-specific binding to the zona pellucida surrounding the ...