Letters Laparoscopic removal of abdominal cervical suture Editor, Cervical incompetence is diagnosed in 0.1-1% of all pregnancies and in 8% of women with repeated (two or more) mid-trimester pregnancy loss. 1 Cervical cerclage should be offered to patients with three or more pregnancies ending before 37 weeks gestation 2 as there is a strong body of clinical evidence suggesting that cervical ce...

Among internal fertilizers, typically fewer than 1% sperm survive the journey through the oviduct. Several studies suggest that the sperm reaching the ovum-the 'fertilizing set'-comprise a non-random sub-population, but the characteristics of this group remain unclear. We tested whether oviductal selection in birds results in a morphologically distinct subset of sperm, by exploiting the fact th...

De ovi mammalium et hominis genesi (On the Genesis of the Ovum of Mammals and of Men) is an 1827 pamphlet by Karl Ernst von Baer about the anatomical observation and description of the egg [3] (ovum [4]) of mammals, like dogs and humans [5]. The pamphlet detailed evidence for the existence of the ovum [4] at the beginning of the developmental process in mammals. Prior to von Baer's publication,...

Fertilized mouse ova were injected with messenger RNA for rabbit globin. The ova were labelled with [H]leucine and the synthesized rabbit a-globin measured by immunoprecipitation. Injection of rabbit globin mRNA from 4-0 to 15-8pg/ovum resulted in the synthesis of ~1200 dpm/ovum of a-globin during an 18 h incubation. A concentration of mRNA that was translated below the maximum level of globin ...

Background: C-reactive protein (CRP) can be increased after hormonal stimulations. The changes of CRP might affect the success of in-vitro fertilization (IVF). Objective: The aim of this study was to determine the possible relationship between the serum CRP level and outcome of controlled ovarian stimulation, and pregnancy rate in patients undergoing IVF or intra cytoplasmic sperm injection (IC...