Background: Methotrexate (MTX) is used as an antineoplastic drug in the treatment of various cancers and non-cancerous diseases. Ovarian ablation is considered to be effective in delaying recurrence of cancer and increasing survival in young women. When added to chemotherapy, it is less clear that this technique is effective. Uniqueness of the present study is that we used ovariectomized (OVX) ...

Uterus transplantation has been considered as an alternative management modality in the last few years for adoption or gestational surrogacy for women with absence of uterus due to congenital or acquired reasons. Surrogacy is legal in only a few countries because of ethical, social and legal issues. Up to date, a total of 11 uterus transplantation cases have been reported in which uteri were ha...

BACKGROUND Most of the reports on mothers with bicornuate uterus analyze fertility, reproductive capacity, and pregnancy outcomes. Very few of them, however, mention the risk for congenital anomalies in their offspring. Further, to our knowledge, no epidemiologic studies estimating the risk for congenital defects and analyzing the type of anomalies observed in infants born to mothers with bicor...

inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor (imt) is an aggressive benign mass that may arise from various tissues and organs with a great variability of histological and clinical appearances. due to variable and nonspecific imaging findings, diagnosis of imt is not obtained before surgery. the aim of this paper is to present ct and mri findings during four-year follow-up of complete, spontaneous regres...

background: various uterine disorders lead to infertility in women of reproductive ages. this study was performed to describe common uterine causes of infertility and sonographic evaluation of them for midwives.   methods:to study the literatures, manuscripts published at “pubmed”, “elsevier”, “google scholar”, “sid” and original text books, between 1985 and 2015, were carefully reviewed, using...

the present study was conducted on sixty healthy female domestic ruminants that suffered from still births or abortion, to find sero-positive cases and also to determine the probable role of uterine tissue in diagnosis of akabane viral infection and viral persistency. because of this, a serological test (elisa) and molecular (rt-pcr) diagnostic methods were used to find the seropositive cases a...

background: maternally administered opiates such as morphine represent a serious human health problem. opioid abuse may have unfavorable effects on reproductive organs. objective: the present study evaluates on the effects of morphine on structure and ultrastructure of uterus in balb/c mice. materials and methods: forty balb/c pregnant mice were divided into four groups: two experimental (i and...

background: citrus aurantium is a small citrus tree, with scented white flowers. the c. aurantium is used in asian herbal medicine primarily to treat digestive problems. objective: the goal of this study is to investigate the effect of c. aurantium flower's aqueous extract on uterine contraction in presence of some known uterus stimulants. materials and methods: in experimental study 30 virgin ...

zataria multiflora boiss. is used in iranian traditional medicine to treat gastrointestinal disorders and menrrhalgia. the inhibitory effect of this herb on rat ileum contractions is also reported. the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of zataria multiflora boiss. hydroalcoholic leaf extract (zhle) on isolated rat uterus in presence of some known uterus stimulants. pieces of virgi...