Intracytoplasmic sperm injection

Menopause

The menopause is a natural event for all women; the ovaries no longer produce estrogen and progesterone. This can be due to natural aging (usual age of onset is 51 years), or through chemotherapy an...

Anthrax Vaccines and Therapeutics

Anthrax is a zoonotic disease caused by the spore-forming bacterium Bacillus anthracis. The disease most commonly occurs in mammals (e.g., cattle, sheep, goats, camels, antelope. Anthrax occurs in hu...

Luteinizing Hormone LH

Luteinizing hormone (LH), a gonadotropin, stimulates the gonads - in males, the testes, and in females, the ovaries. It is essential for reproduction, and secreted from cells in the anterior pituita...

ImuXen

ImuXen® is a liposomal technology platform designed to improve the delivery and effectiveness of DNA, protein and polysaccharide vaccines. Proof of concept preclinical studies with a number of...

Massachusetts Specialty Pharmacy Announces Voluntary Recall

Village Fertility Pharmacy is conducting a voluntary recall of compounded medications shipped over the past three months. The recall resulted after particulate was discover...

Early halt to progesterone after IVF doesn't impede success

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Stopping progesterone support after five weeks - instead of the usual eight - has no negative effects on pregnancy rates after in vitro fertilization (IVF)/intracytopla...

CORRECTING and REPLACING Massachusetts Specialty Pharmacy Announces Voluntary Recall

First graph, second sentence of release should read: The recall resulted after particulate was discovered in a small percentage of two lots of Progesterone (sted The recall result...

Cancer vaccines self-sabotage, channel immune attack to injection site

(University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center) UT MD Anderson scientists have found that many therapeutic cancer vaccines fail because they attract more T cells to the injection site than to the t...

Injection Site Infections Join Meningitis, Joint Infections from Tainted Drugs

As if the more than 14,000 people who were potentially exposed to tainted injectable drugs through back or joint injections don't have enough on their plate, public health officials announced Nov. 20...

Progesterone Shots May Not Prevent Preterm Birth of Twins: Study

THURSDAY, Feb. 14 (HealthDay News) -- Progesterone shots are not effective in preventing preterm delivery of twins, say French researchers, who found that the hormone injections could actually do more...

Progesterone may be why pregnant women are more vulnerable to certain infections

(Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology) Women who are pregnant or using synthetic progesterone birth control injections have a vulnerability to infections including malaria, Lister...

Teva Women's Health, Inc. Announces New Data on Phase III Investigational Progesterone Vaginal Ring at the 68th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine

- Data Demonstrates Efficacy of the Vaginal Progesterone Ring, Milprosa™, is Similar to Progesterone Gel and May Offer a Convenient Administration Route for Women - FRAZER, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-...

A sensitive flow injection chemiluminescence method for the determination of progesterone.

A sensitive flow injection (FI) chemiluminescence (CL) method was developed for the determination of trace amounts of progesterone. This method was based on the luminescent properties of the tris(1,10...

Prostaglandin F(2α) and gonadotropin-releasing hormone administration improve progesterone status, luteal number, and proportion of ovular and anovular dairy cows with corpora lutea before a timed artificial insemination program.

The objective of this research was to increase the proportion of cows with at least 1 functional corpus luteum (CL) and elevated progesterone at the onset of the timed artificial insemination (TAI) pr...

Progesterone activates the principal Ca2+ channel of human sperm.

Steroid hormone progesterone released by cumulus cells surrounding the egg is a potent stimulator of human spermatozoa. It attracts spermatozoa towards the egg and helps them penetrate the egg's prote...

Assessing the Role of Patient Support Services on Adherence Rates in Patients Using Glatiramer Acetate for Relapsing-Remitting Multiple Sclerosis.

Abstract Objective: To assess predictors of achievement of 80% Medication Possession Ratio (MPR) in patients receiving manufacturer provided self-management services for relapsing-remitting multiple s...

Glucocorticoid Receptor Mediates the Effect of Progesterone on Uterine Natural Killer Cells.

PROBLEM: Uterine natural killer cells (uNK) do not express progesterone receptor, but express glucocorticoid receptor (GR). So, we speculate that progesterone may regulate uNK cells through a GR-media...