in addition to ultrasonographic monitoring of folliculogenesis, urinary luteinizing hormone testing, luteal phase endometrial biopsy, serum antiphospholipid antibodies, etc., immunologic tests are recently being used to evaluate reproductive disorders. in this study, sharing of hla-a, b, c and dr antigens and the presence of antipaternal cytotoxic antibody (apca) was assessed using microcytotox...

Proteolytic activity is compared in anther extracts from Petunia parodii fertile and cytoplasmic male sterile lines. It is characterized relative to developmental stage of the anthers, effect of variable incubation times, pH of isolation buffers, and degradation of marker proteins. In fertile anthers, proteolytic activity increases at the end of microsporogenesis and peaks early in microgametog...

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...