background: polycystic ovary syndrome (pcos) is the most common endocrine disorder in reproductive women. nearly 10% of young women in this period involved. although factors such as insulin resistance, hyper insulinemia, obesity and dietary are suggested to be associated with pcos, cause of pcos is not completely understood. dairy products (a key component of the usual diet) of participants can...

objective: polycystic ovary syndrome (pcos) is one of the most common endocrine disorders in women. metformin is a biguanide commonly used to improve pcos symptoms. effect of metformin on the levels of serum homocysteine (hcy) in pcos women is unclear. the aim of this study is evaluating the effect of metformin administration on serum hcy levels and metabolic parameters of pcos patients. materi...

in order to evaluate the effects of short course administration of dexamethasone (dex) combined with clomiphene citrate (cc) in cc-resistant patients with polycystic ovary syndrome (pcas) and normal dheas, a prospective, double blind, placebo controlled, randomized study was undertaken at referral university hospitals, two-hundred and thirty women with pcos and normal dheas who failed to ovulat...

background: polycystic ovary syndrome (pcos) is a disorder in which there are numerous benign cysts that form on ovaries under a thick white covering that is one of the causes of infertility. follistatin is a single chain glycosylated polypeptide that can bind to activin. when follistatin binds to activin it suppresses the role of activin to stimulate the secretion of follicle stimulating hormo...

background:   objective: the aim of this study was to evaluate the in vitro developmental competence of mouse vitrified pre-antral follicles in comparison to isolated pre-antral follicles derived from vitrified ovaries in the presence of alpha lipoic acid (ala).   materials and methods: pre-antral follicles derived from fresh, vitrified-warmed ovarian tissues and vitrified–warmed pre-antral fol...

background: women with polycystic ovary syndrome have lower pregnancy rates, possibly due to the decreased uterine  receptivity.successful implantation depends on protein networks that are essential for cross-talk between the embryo and endometrium.apolipoprotein a1 has been proposed as a putative anti-implantation factor. in this study, we evaluated apolipoprotein a1 expression in human endome...

introduction: cyclosporine a (neoral) is one of the immunosuppresive drugs that because of wide distribution in whole body can cause many side effects in different organs this study was done because of this drug effect on rat,s ovary tissue. marerials and methods: in this study 45 rats divided in three equall groups. two groups named tested group and one group as witness group. test groups were...

absract a case of 69- year-old woman with large pelvic mass and ascites is reported in this paper. with the exception of mild pelvic pain and a pelvic mass in pelvic , she had no symptom or sign . all routine and hormonal lab tests and tumor marker's were normal. the mri revealed a large mass in anterosuperior of uterus, and left ovary was situated in neighborhood of pelvic mass.her uterus norm...

polycystic ovary syndrome (pcos) is a common endocrine / metabolic disorder in women of reproductive age .abdominal adiposity and obesity are frequently present in pcos. it now appears that, obesity is associated with a low-grade inflammation of white adipose tissue. adipokines play a significant role in the pathogenesis of a low-grade inflammation associated with obesity. among variety of adip...