The ovarian reserve (OR) gradually decreases throughout the female fertile life. This continuous depletion in OR is irreversible. This occurs through a programmed cell death known apoptosis. Some factors hasten such depletion such as chemo- and radiotherapy. Others have been investigated in trials to preserve the OR including gonadotropins, cytokines, growth hormones, nitric oxide and reorganiz...

objective: to evaluate the potentiality of ovcar–3 cell line of ovarian adenocarcinoma as a xenograft model for ovarian adenocarcinoma in nude mice. materials and methods: the cell line isolated from advanced human ovarian adenocarcinoma, were inoculated to eight nude mice and two months later. established tumors were transferred to pathology laboratory to be prepared by h&e; staining and immun...

background : ovarian cancer is the leading cause of death among gynecological cancers. changes in the methylation of brca1 and brca2 may be an effective mechanism for breast and ovarian cancer. this study evaluates the protein expression and methylation status of brca2 in iranian patients. methods : we assessed 60 mullerian-type ovarian cancers by methylation-specific pcr assays and immunohisto...

results out of 140 samples of oca, 70 (50%) samples were malignant cancer and 70 (50%) were benign cancer as the control group. out of 70 malignant samples 25 (36.0%) were hpv-16 positive. 2.8% of the tissue samples of the control group were positive for hpv-16. conclusions these results show a feasible role of hpv-16 in the carcinogenesis of oca. according to these results, infection with hpv ...

background: acceptance of uterus and reaction between endometrium and embryo has an important role for implantation. muc1 an integral membrane mucin is expressed on the apical surface of uterine epithelial cells and could have effects on its receptivity. objective: the aim of this study was to evaluate the changes in muc1 expression of gravid mouse endometrium with and without hyperstimulation ...

background : the present study aimed to investigate the rate and time of ovarian function restoration in breast cancer patients between 40 and 60 years of age who were in menopause (biochemically documented) and received letrozole after chemotherapy. we intended to further clarify the management strategy for breast cancer patients with different menopausal status. methods : we prospectively mea...

background: reduced ovarian reserve has been known to predict poor ovarian response and poor success rates in infertile women undergoing assisted reproductive technology. ovarian reserve also decreases with age but the rate of decline defers from a woman to another. the aim of this study was to detect any difference in ovarian reserve as measured by basal serum fsh and amh between matched cohor...

Background: Ovarian cancer is the most fatal tumor of female's reproductive system, and several genetics and environmental factors are involved in its development. Various studies have already identified suitable biomarkers to facilitate the early detection, prognosis evaluation, and the assessment of treatment response. However, the aim of this review was to investigate the role of long non-co...

Background: Premature ovarian failure (POF) is defined by the association of amenorrhea, hypoestrogenism and elevated (menopausal) levels of serum gonadotropins before age of 40 years-old. This condition affects approximately %1 of women under 40 years of age. Physiologic replacement of ovarian steroid hormones seems rational until the age of normal menopause. Temporary return of ovarian functi...

from december 2000 until 2010, the researchers at royan institute conducted a wide range of investigations on ovarian tissue cryopreservation with the intent to provide fertility preservation to cancer patients that were considered to be candidates for these services. in 2010, royan institute established the royan human ovarian tissue bank as a subgroup of the embryology department. since its i...