Background: To study the morphological development and histomorphometry of foetal and adult ovaries in Kano brown goats. Materials and Methods: Fifty-one foetal and fourteen adult ovaries obtained from slaughtered Kano brown does in Nsukka abattoir were used for this study. The ages of the adult does were determined by dentition and foetuses by crown rump length method. The foetal and adult ova...

Melanoma is a cancer arising from the malignant transformation of melanocytes. These pigment-producing cells derive embryologically from pluripotent neural crest stem cells. During foetal development they not only predominantly migrate to and differentiate within the epidermis, but also to other extra-cutaneous pigment-containing sites such as the eyes, meninges, oesophagus and mucous membranes...

OBJECTIVES To determine the value of clinical foetal distress in predicting early perinatal outcome. DESIGN Prospective cohort study. SETTING Kenyatta National Hospital. SUBJECTS Fifty eight newborns delivered via Caesarian section with a diagnosis of clinical foetal distress were compared with another group of 58 newborns delivered similarly, but without clinical foetal distress. RESUL...

P. K., Hindu, primipara, a native of Lahore, aged 20, was admitted to the Lady Aitchison Hospital for Women, Lahore, about 5 P.M. on 18th November 1901. Labour pains had begun two days before, and the membranes had ruptured previous to admission. The patient was undersized and markedly ricketty, with legs so bowed as to cause a waddling gait. The child's head was free above the brim, the foetal...

a primigravida who had been in labour fortyeight hours, with a large baby, a weakly contracting uterus, a good pulse and a flat pelvis, above whose brim the baby's head was floating freely. The membranes had ruptured early in labour and there was no sign of foetal life, but I thought it worth trying a forceps extraction before proceeding to craniotomy. Low Csesarean section was then in its earl...

Rat embryos explanted with their membranes at head-fold stage (9 1/2 days gestation) formed an allantoic placenta which enlarged in culture and developed a foetal blood circulation. Embryos explanted at early somite stages (10 1/2 days) also formed a growing allantoic placenta but only after removal of most of the ectoplacental trophoblast. Assays of total protein in the embryo and placenta sug...

?2 microglobulin (?2m) fibril has been recognized as the major factor of dialysis-related amyloidosis. elevated serum levels are thought to be the basis for tissue deposition. in order to evaluate the effect of cellulosis membrane (fb 110) and treatment duration on s?2m levels, we determined serum levels in 23 hemodialyzed patients with end-stage renal failure. s?2m levels were markedly elevate...

OBJECTIVES Premature rupture of the membranes (PROM) in pregnancy refers to rupture of membranes of the amniotic sac and chorion. The aim of the study was to review the literature and analyze the course of pregnancy (primipara) complicated by the premature rupture of the membranes, and consequent loss of amniotic fluid after 19 weeks of gestation. STUDY DESIGN A 27-year old primiparous patien...