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Enzyme Affinity Assays Involving a Single-Use Electrochemical Sensor. Applications to the Enzyme Immunoassay of Human Chorionic Gonadotropin Hormone …

2000

Successful gamete intrafallopian transfer following failed artificial insemination by donor: evidence for a defect in gamete transport?

1988

Gamete intrafallopian transfer (GIFT) was offered as an alternative treatment to 48 women who failed to conceive after artificial insemination with donor semen (AID) in numerous attempts (9 to 24 cycles). The evaluation of these women showed no major cause of infertility as evidenced by normal endocrine, cervical, uterine, and tubal factor studies. Their partners were either azoospermic or severely oligoasthenospermic. During the GIFT cycle, follicular development was induced with (1) clomiphene citrate (days 3 to 7) plus human menopausal gonadotropins (hMG) from day 6 on or (2) human follicle-stimulating hormone (days 3 to 4) plus hMG (day 5 on), until ultrasound revealed 2 follicles 16 mm…

Does transvaginal color Doppler sonography differentiate between developing and involuting ectopic pregnancies?

1995

The objective of this study was to assess the addition of transvaginal color Doppler imaging to transvaginal ultrasonography and beta-human chorionic gonadotropin values to differentiate between developin and involuting ectopic pregnancies. Forty surgically confirmed ectopic pregnancies were classified into developing or involuting according to histopathologic findings. Results were compared retrospectively with the plasma beta-human chorionic gonadotropin values as well as the resistive index and pulsatility index obtained in corpora lutea and peritrophoblastic flow in serial examinations. Student's t-test was used for comparison of means. Logistic regression analysis was applied to predic…

Zvaigžņotā Debess: 2006/07, Ziema

2006

Latvijas Zinātnes padome, Latvijas Universitāte

Zvaigžņotā Debess: 2015, Rudens (229)

2015

Latvijas Universitāte

Zvaigžņotā Debess: 2016, Rudens (233)

2016

Latvijas Universitāte

Zvaigžņotā Debess: 2018, Pavasaris (239)

2018

Contents: “ZVAIGŽŅOTĀ DEBESS” FORTY YEARS AGO: A.Balklavs. Some Considerations about Communication with Extraterrestrial Civilizations (abridged) ; I.Rabinovičs. Does the Moon Affect Living Nature? (abridged) ; DEVELOPMENTS in SCIENCE: K.Schwartz. Brown Dwarfs ; DISCOVERIES: I.Pundure. Odd Movements of Star Reveal Lonely Black Hole in Globular Star Cluster ; I.Pundure. Gaia Enables Viewing Evolution of Orion Constellation over Coming 450 000 Years ; J.Kuzmanis. A Guest from Another Stars ; SPACE RESEARCH and EXPLORATION: J.Jaunbergs. To Catch the Galactic Visitor `Oumuamua ; J.Jaunbergs. Invisible Connections of Dione ; LATVIAN SCIENTISTS: The List of Popular Science Papers (1958-2016) by P…

Gamete intrafallopian transfer in the treatment of infertility: the first series at the University of Palermo

1986

Twenty-six couples with unexplained infertility (UI), nine women with repeated failures of artificial insemination with donor semen (AID), three women with mild endometriosis, three with periadnexal adhesions, one with hostile (not immunologic) cervical mucus, and one couple in which the male partner was affected by asthenospermia were treated by the gamete intrafallopian transfer (GIFT) technique. Three different protocols for controlled ovarian hyperstimulation were used, and an adequate follicular growth and oocyte maturation were achieved in all cases. Seventeen pregnancies were obtained, for a global pregnancy rate of 38.6%. Two pregnancies (11.7%) ended in clinical abortions, and one …

Prenatal diagnosis of infantile neuronal ceroid-lipofuscinosis: a combined electron microscopic and molecular genetic approach.

1995

Based on two unrelated index patients afflicted with INCL, fetal chorion tissues were studied from subsequent pregnancies of the two respective mothers resulting in the prenatal diagnosis of INCL in two of the three pregnancies. Documentation of INCL was based on electron microscopy and DNA studies of the biopsied chorion tissue, later confirmed in the two affected fetuses after termination of their pregnancies by demonstrating INCL-specific lipopigments in post-mortem tissues, in the liver of both aborted fetuses and, additionally, in spleen and skeletal muscle of one of the affected fetuses. The autolysis of the aborted tissues, however, precluded a systematic documentation of all affecte…

Biochemical selection of prepubertal patients with androgen insensitivity syndrome by sex hormone-binding globulin response to the human chorionic go…

1997

Before puberty, the diagnosis of androgen insensitivity syndrome (AIS) can be difficult. We studied whether the decrease of sex hormone-binding globulin (SHBG) during the human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) test may represent a biochemical test to select prepubertal patients with AIS. We examined prepubertal patients with AIS (n = 9, age 0.9-8.2 y), male pseudohermaphroditism not due to AIS (other-MPH) (n = 8, age 0.6-10.7 y), and control boys (n = 12, age 0.8-12.5 y). Testosterone and SHBG levels (mean +/- SD) were measured before (d 0) and after (d 5) a hCG test (1500 IU X 3 d). Testosterone levels (nmol/L) increased in all groups [AIS: from 1.5 +/- 1.2 to 22.1 +/- 11.8 (p0.001); other-MPH…