Alarcão, Violeta Stefanovska-Petkovska, Miodraga Virgolino, Ana Santos, Osvaldo Ribeiro, Sofia Costa, Andreia Nogueira, Paulo Pascoal, Patrícia M. Pintassilgo, Sónia Machado, Fernando Luís
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Reproductive Health
BackgroundThe existing knowledge on the interplay between reproductive and sexual health, migration and acculturation is recent and inconsistent, particularly on the sociocultural motives and constraints regarding fertility. Therefore, sexual and reproductive health (SRH) surveys are needed to provide accurate and comparable indicators to identify ...
Seroussi, Eyal Shirak, Andrey Gershoni, Moran Ezra, Ephraim de Abreu Santos, Daniel Jordan Ma, Li Liu, George E.
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BMC Genetics
BackgroundCrossover localization during meiotic recombination is mediated by the fast-evolving zinc-finger (ZnF) domain of gene PRDM9. To study its impact on dairy cattle performance, we compared its genetic variation between the relatively small Israeli (IL) Holsteins and the North American (US) Holsteins that count millions.ResultsInitially, we a...
Thu, Sandi Win Rai, Krishan Mohan Sandhu, Devinder Rajangam, Alex Balasubramanian, Vimal Kumar Palmer, Reid G. Mendu, Venugopal
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BMC Plant Biology
BackgroundMale sterility has tremendous scientific and economic importance in hybrid seed production. Identification and characterization of a stable male sterility gene will be highly beneficial for making hybrid seed production economically feasible. In soybean, eleven male-sterile, female-fertile mutant lines (ms1, ms2, ms3, ms4, ms5, ms6, ms7, ...
Li, Rui Zhou, Su Zhu, Hongyan Zhang, Zhichao Fang, Jing Liu, Ping Wang, Yu Chang, Xiuli Zhang, Yubin Tang, Liming
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Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology
BackgroundFluorochloridone (FLC) is a widely used herbicide, and its target organs are testes and epididymides. The Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals classified FLC as Level 2-possibly cause fertility or fetal damage (no relevant data support). The maximum residue levels of FLC in processed crops have been revi...
Fourvel, Gaëtan Jules Vidal Beaudet, Laure Le Bocq, Agathe Thery, François Brochier, Violaine Cannavo, Patrice
Purpose Fine sediment accumulates upstream of hydroelectric dams. To ensure that dams can operate properly, part of the sediment has to be dredged and land managed. In parallel, using topsoil from agricultural parcels for urban greening or land restoration is currently controversial because arable surface areas are decreasing. An alternative idea f...
Kiser, Jennifer N. Keuter, Elizabeth M. Seabury, Christopher M. Neupane, Mahesh Moraes, Joao G. N. Dalton, Joseph Burns, Gregory W. Spencer, Thomas E. Neibergs, Holly L.
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BMC Genomics
BackgroundSubfertility is one challenge facing the dairy industry as the average Holstein heifer conception rate (HCR), the proportion of heifers that conceive and maintain a pregnancy per breeding, is estimated at 55–60%. Of the loci associated with HCR, few have been validated in an independent cattle population, limiting their usefulness for sel...
Zaake, Daniel Kayiira, Anthony Namagembe, Imelda
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Fertility Research and Practice
IntroductionPartner support is very important in alleviating the burden of infertility related stress and although understudied, partner coping patterns also play a key role in the other partner’s ability to cope with the infertility experience which eventually affects treatment outcomes. Very few studies more so in a low to middle income setting, ...
Dahlberg, Johan Andersson, Gunnar
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Reproductive Health
BackgroundIt is well-established that couples’ fecundities vary widely. Each couple has a relatively constant monthly probability of conceiving, which can vary from zero to quite high. This underlying probability is usually expressed as the time (number of menstrual cycles) the couple requires to conceive. Couples with high fecundity will, on avera...
Li, Zhongxun Yan, Guijun Diao, Qiang Yu, Fei Li, Xin’an Sheng, Xiaoqiang Liu, Yong Dai, Yimin Zhou, Huaijun Zhen, Xin
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Stem Cell Research & Therapy
BackgroundDisruptions of angiogenesis can have a significant effect on the healing of uterine scars. Human endometrial perivascular cells (CD146+PDGFRβ+) function as stem cells in the endometrium. Cysteine-rich angiogenic inducer 61 (CYR61) plays an important role in vascular development. The purpose of this study was to observe the effects of the ...
Maheshwari, Abha Bhattacharya, Siladitya Bowler, Ursula Brison, Daniel Child, Tim Cole, Christina Coomarasamy, Arri Cutting, Rachel Harbottle, Stephen Hardy, Pollyanna
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Reproductive Health
BackgroundInfertility affects one in seven couples; many of these need in vitro fertilisation (IVF). IVF involves external hormones to stimulate a woman’s ovaries to produce eggs which are harvested surgically. Embryos, created in the laboratory by mixing eggs with sperm, are grown in culture for a few days before being replaced within the uterus (...
