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  1. Conflicting reports have been published on the sensitivity of spermatogenesis to capsaicin (CAP), the pungent ingredient of hot chili peppers. Here, the effect of CAP on germ cell survival was investigated by ...

    Authors: Sefika C Mizrak, Bart M Gadella, Hatice Erdost, Aytekin Ozer, Ana MM van Pelt and Federica MF van Dissel-Emiliani
    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2008 6:52

    The Erratum to this article has been published in Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2011 9:17

  2. In human and rodents, sperm-zona pellucida binding is mediated by a sperm surface Galactosyltransferase that recognizes N-Acetylglucosamine residues on a glycoprotein ZPC. In large domestic mammals, the role o...

    Authors: Sylvie Mugnier, Stéphane Boittin, Cécile Douet, Philippe Monget, Michèle Magistrini and Ghylène Goudet
    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2008 6:51
  3. Corpus luteum (CL) regression is known to occur as two parts; functional regression when steroidogenesis declines and structural regression when apoptosis is induced. Previous studies suggest this process occu...

    Authors: Michael Abdo, Susan Hisheh, Frank Arfuso and Arun Dharmarajan
    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2008 6:50
  4. HOX cofactors enhance HOX binding affinities and specificities and increase HOX's unique functional activities. The expression and the regulation of HOX cofactors in human ovaries are unknown.

    Authors: Takayo Ota, Haruka Asahina, Se-Hyung Park, Qing Huang, Takashi Minegishi, Nelly Auersperg and Peter CK Leung
    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2008 6:49
  5. Bilateral ovariectomy or adrenalectomy are experimental tools used to understand the mechanisms regulating the hypothalamus-pituitary-ovarian and the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis. There is evidence that...

    Authors: Angélica Flores, Alma I Gallegos, Jacqueline Velasco, Fernando D Mendoza, Cristina Montiel, Pamela M Everardo, María-Esther Cruz and Roberto Domínguez
    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2008 6:48
  6. Cryopreservation of ovarian tissue and in vitro follicle maturation are two emerging techniques for fertility preservation, especially in cancer patients. These treatment regimes are opening up more options an...

    Authors: Alex C Varghese, Stefan S du Plessis, Tommaso Falcone and Ashok Agarwal
    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2008 6:47
  7. Chlamydia trachomatis infection of the female genital tract can lead to serious sequelae resulting in fertility related disorders. Little is known about the mechanism leading to Chlamydia induced pathology and...

    Authors: Tanvi Agrawal, Vikas Vats, Paul K Wallace, Sudha Salhan and Aruna Mittal
    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2008 6:46
  8. The cervical mucus plug (CMP) is a semi-solid structure with antibacterial properties positioned in the cervical canal during pregnancy. The CMP contains high concentrations of matrix metalloproteinase 8 and 9...

    Authors: Naja Becher, Merete Hein, Niels Uldbjerg and Carl Christian Danielsen
    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2008 6:45
  9. Prostaglandins (PG), produced by the uterine endometrium, are key regulators of several reproductive events, including estrous cyclicity, implantation, pregnancy maintenance and parturition. Phospholipase A2 (...

    Authors: James D Godkin, Mary P Roberts, Mona Elgayyar, Wei Guan and Patricia K Tithof
    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2008 6:44
  10. Myometrial smooth myocytes contract as a result of electrical signalling via a process called excitation-contraction coupling. This process is understood in great detail at the cellular level but the generatio...

    Authors: Graham Hutchings, Thomas Gevaert, Jan Deprest, Tania Roskams, Alfons Van Lommel, Bernd Nilius and Dirk De Ridder
    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2008 6:43
  11. Somatolactin (Sl) is a fish specific adenohypophyseal peptide hormone related to growth hormone (Gh). Some species, including salmonids, possess two forms: Sl alpha and Sl beta. The somatolactin receptor (slr)...

    Authors: Susana Benedet, Björn Thrandur Björnsson, Geir Lasse Taranger and Eva Andersson
    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2008 6:42
  12. Krüppel-like factor 9 (KLF9) is a transcriptional regulator of uterine endometrial cell proliferation, adhesion and differentiation; processes essential for pregnancy success and which are subverted during tum...

    Authors: Frank A Simmen, Ying Su, Rijin Xiao, Zhaoyang Zeng and Rosalia CM Simmen
    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2008 6:41
  13. Toll-like receptors (TLRs) play an essential role in the innate immune system by initiating and directing immune response to pathogens. TLRs are expressed in the human endometrium and their regulation might be...

    Authors: Svenja Allhorn, Carsten Böing, Andrea A Koch, Rainer Kimmig and Isabella Gashaw
    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2008 6:40
  14. Placentas of guinea pig-related rodents are appropriate animal models for human placentation because of their striking similarities to those of humans. To optimize the pool of potential models in this context,...

    Authors: Moacir F Oliveira, Andrea Mess, Carlos E Ambrósio, Carlos AG Dantas, Phelipe O Favaron and Maria A Miglino
    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2008 6:39
  15. Acid phosphatase locus 1 and adenosine deaminase locus 1 polymorphisms show cooperative effects on glucose metabolism and immunological functions. The recent observation of cooperation between the two systems ...

    Authors: Fulvia Gloria-Bottini, Adalgisa Pietropolli, Luca Coppeta, Andrea Magrini, Antonio Bergamaschi and Egidio Bottini
    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2008 6:38
  16. To evaluate the relationship between endometrial thickness on day of human chorionic gonadotrophin administration (hCG) and pregnancy outcome in a large number of consecutive in vitro fertilization and embryo ...

    Authors: Ahlam Al-Ghamdi, Serdar Coskun, Saad Al-Hassan, Rafat Al-Rejjal and Khalid Awartani
    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2008 6:37
  17. Prolonged pregnancies are associated with increased rate of maternal and fetal complications. Post term women could be divided into at least two subgroups, one where parturition is possible to induce by prosta...

    Authors: Lena Sahlin, Ylva Stjernholm-Vladic, Nathalie Roos, Britt Masironi and Gunvor Ekman-Ordeberg
    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2008 6:36
  18. Aim of this study was to test the hypothesis that levels of hyperpolarization activated cyclic nucleotide gated channels 1 to 4 (HCN1-4) are linked to the reproductive age of the ovary.

    Authors: John Yeh, Beom Su Kim, Larry Gaines, Jennifer Peresie, Carly Page and Armando Arroyo
    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2008 6:35
  19. Non-invasive micro-ultrasound was evaluated as a method to quantify intrauterine growth phenotypes in mice. Improved methods are required to accelerate research using genetically-altered mice to investigate th...

    Authors: Junwu Mu, John C Slevin, Dawei Qu, Sarah McCormick and S Lee Adamson
    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2008 6:34
  20. The objective of this study was to investigate the viability of level set image segmentation methods for the detection of corpora lutea (corpus luteum, CL) boundaries in ultrasonographic ovarian images. It was...

    Authors: Brennan J Rusnell, Roger A Pierson, Jaswant Singh, Gregg P Adams and Mark G Eramian
    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2008 6:33
  21. Spermatogenesis and fertilization are highly unique processes. Discovery and characterization of germ cell-specific genes are important for the understanding of these reproductive processes. We investigated ei...

    Authors: Namhoe Baek, Jong-Min Woo, Cecil Han, Eunyoung Choi, Inju Park, Do Han Kim, Edward M Eddy and Chunghee Cho
    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2008 6:32
  22. The current study was designed to determine if follitropin alfa (recombinant human follicle-stimulating hormone; r-hFSH) and lutropin alfa (recombinant human luteinizing hormone; r-hLH) biopotencies were uncha...

    Authors: Michael Alper, Randal Meyer, Chris Dekkers, Diego Ezcurra, Joan Schertz and Eduardo Kelly
    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2008 6:31
  23. We recently reported poor inter-observer agreement in identifying and quantifying individual ultrasonographic features of polycystic ovaries. Our objective was to determine the effect of a training workshop on...

    Authors: Marla E Lujan, Donna R Chizen, Andrew K Peppin, Stefan Kriegler, David A Leswick, Terri G Bloski and Roger A Pierson
    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2008 6:30
  24. RNA interference (RNAi) is a valuable tool in the investigation of gene function. The purpose of this study was to examine the availability, target cell types and efficiency of RNAi in the mouse seminiferous e...

    Authors: Emilio González-González, Pedro P López-Casas and Jesús del Mazo
    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2008 6:29
  25. D-Aspartic acid (D-Asp) and nitric oxide (NO) play an important role in tuning testosterone production in the gonads of male vertebrates. In particular, D-Asp promotes either the synthesis or the release of te...

    Authors: Maria M Di Fiore, Claudia Lamanna, Loredana Assisi and Virgilio Botte
    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2008 6:28
  26. The placenta is an important site for iron metabolism in humans. It transfers iron from the mother to the fetus. One of the major iron transport proteins is transferrin, which is a blood plasma protein crucial...

    Authors: Alena Kralova, Marta Svetlikova, Jindrich Madar, Zdena Ulcova-Gallova, Antonin Bukovsky and Jana Peknicova
    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2008 6:27
  27. A very high prevalence (22.3%) of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) was recently reported following our study on a large group of Sardinian women. In order to explain such a high prevalence we sought to char...

    Authors: Cinzia Murgia, Rachele Berria, Luigi Minerba, Simonetta Sulis, Michela Murenu, Elaine Portoghese, Nicoletta Garau, Pierina Zedda and Gian Benedetto Melis
    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2008 6:26
  28. The mechanism of sex determination in zebrafish is largely unknown and neither sex chromosomes nor a sex-determining gene have been identified. This indicates that sex determination in zebrafish is mediated by...

    Authors: Anne Jørgensen, Jane E Morthorst, Ole Andersen, Lene J Rasmussen and Poul Bjerregaard
    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2008 6:25
  29. We previously reported a high prevalence (22.3%) of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) in a large group of Sardinian women, in contrast with the prevalence of Type 2 diabetes. Sardinia has an unusual distribu...

    Authors: Cinzia Murgia, Marisa Orrù, Elaine Portoghese, Nicoletta Garau, Pierina Zedda, Rachele Berria, Costantino Motzo, Simonetta Sulis, Michela Murenu, Anna Maria Paoletti and Gian Benedetto Melis
    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2008 6:24
  30. In rats, oral oleoyl-estrone (OE) decreases food intake and body lipid content. The aim of this study was to determine whether OE treatment affects the energy metabolism of pregnant rats and eventually, of the...

    Authors: Beatriz García-Peláez, Ruth Vilà and Xavier Remesar
    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2008 6:23
  31. HTRA3 is a recently identified member of the mammalian serine protease family HTRA (high temperature requirement factor A). In both the rodent and the human HTRA3 is transcribed into two mRNA species (long and...

    Authors: Marissa A Bowden, Ying Li, Yi-Xun Liu, Jock K Findlay, Lois A Salamonsen and Guiying Nie
    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2008 6:22
  32. Evolutionary theory suggests that in polygynous mammalian species females in better body condition should produce more sons than daughters. Few controlled studies have however tested this hypothesis and contro...

    Authors: Mark P Green, Lee D Spate, Tina E Parks, Koji Kimura, Clifton N Murphy, Jim E Williams, Monty S Kerley, Jonathan A Green, Duane H Keisler and R Michael Roberts
    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2008 6:21
  33. The magnitude of reproductive morbidity associated with sexually transmitted Chlamydia trachomatis infection is enormous. Association of antibodies to chlamydial heat shock proteins (cHSP) 60 and 10 with vario...

    Authors: Pragya Srivastava, Rajneesh Jha, Sylvette Bas, Sudha Salhan and Aruna Mittal
    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2008 6:20
  34. In rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss), the endocrine control of spermiation is not fully understood. Besides 11ketotestosterone (11KT) and 17alpha, 20beta-dihydroxyprogesterone (MIS), the potential physiological...

    Authors: Sylvain Milla, Xavier Terrien, Armin Sturm, Fidaa Ibrahim, Franck Giton, Jean Fiet, Patrick Prunet and Florence Le Gac
    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2008 6:19
  35. Cimetidine, referred as antiandrogenic agent, has caused alterations in the seminiferous tubules, including alterations in the peritubular tissue and death of myoid cells by apoptosis. Regarding the structural...

    Authors: Estela Sasso-Cerri and Paulo S Cerri
    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2008 6:18
  36. Pregnancy represents an exclusive situation in which the immune and the endocrine system cooperate to prevent rejection of the embryo by the maternal immune system. While immature dendritic cells (iDC) in the ...

    Authors: Sabine E Segerer, Nora Müller, Jens van den Brandt, Michaela Kapp, Johannes Dietl, Holger M Reichardt, Lorenz Rieger and Ulrike Kämmerer
    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2008 6:17
  37. The objective of this study was to perform complex characterization of cryopreserved and then autotransplanted ovaries including determination of the ability to respond to in vivo follicle stimulating hormone ...

    Authors: Anna T Grazul-Bilska, Jashoman Banerjee, Ilker Yazici, Ewa Borowczyk, Jerzy J Bilski, Rakesh K Sharma, Maria Siemionow and Tommaso Falcone
    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2008 6:16
  38. The tetraspan protein epithelial membrane protein-2 (EMP2), which mediates surface display of diverse proteins, is required for endometrial competence in blastocyst implantation, and is uniquely correlated wit...

    Authors: Madhuri Wadehra, Monica Mainigi, Shawn A Morales, Rajiv G Rao, Lynn K Gordon, Carmen J Williams and Jonathan Braun
    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2008 6:15
  39. Neuropeptide Y (NPY), agouti related peptide (AgRP), cocaine and amphetamine-regulated transcript (CART) and melanocortins, the products of the proopiomelanocortin (POMC), are hypothalamic peptides involved in...

    Authors: Jorge E Caminos, Susana B Bravo, C Ruth González, Maria F Garcés, Libia A Cepeda, Adriana C González, Fernando Cordido, Miguel López and Carlos Diéguez
    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2008 6:14
  40. The angiogenic and invasive properties of the cytotrophoblast are crucial to provide an adequate area for feto-maternal exchange. The present study aimed at identifying the localization of interrelated angioge...

    Authors: Gloria Valdés, Rafaela Erices, Cecilia Chacón and Jenny Corthorn
    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2008 6:13
  41. Chromosomal sex determination is a widely distributed strategy in nature. In the most classic scenario, one sex is characterized by a homologue pair of sex chromosomes, while the other includes two morphologic...

    Authors: Roxani Angelopoulou, Giagkos Lavranos and Panagiota Manolakou
    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2008 6:12
  42. Reproductive dysfunction in the diabetic female rat is associated with altered folliculogenesis and steroidogenesis. However, the molecular mechanisms involved in the reduction of steroid production have not b...

    Authors: Christine Chabrolle, Eric JeanPierre, Lucie Tosca, Christelle Ramé and Joëlle Dupont
    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2008 6:11
  43. Women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) are often treated with insulin-sensitizing agents, e.g. thiazolidinediones (TZD), which have been shown to reduce androgen levels and improved ovulatory function. Ac...

    Authors: John D Brannian, Kathleen M Eyster, Mitch Weber and Maureen Diggins
    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2008 6:10
  44. One of the major obstacles in using artificial insemination to manage genetics of elephant population in captivity is the large variations in semen quality among ejaculates within the same and among individual...

    Authors: Nikorn Thongtip, Jumnian Saikhun, Sittidet Mahasawangkul, Kornchai Kornkaewrat, Pornsawan Pongsopavijitr, Nucharin Songsasen and Anuchai Pinyopummin
    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2008 6:9
  45. Cervical ripening is a prerequisite for a normal obstetrical outcome. This process, including labor, is a painful event that shares features with inflammatory reactions where peripheral nociceptive pathways ar...

    Authors: Berith K Tingåker, Gunvor Ekman-Ordeberg, Paul Facer, Lars Irestedt and Praveen Anand
    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2008 6:8
  46. The hypogonadal (hpg) mouse is widely used as an animal model with which to investigate the endocrine regulation of spermatogenesis. Chronic treatment of these GnRH-deficient mice with estradiol is known to in...

    Authors: Helen Baines, Margaret O Nwagwu, Graham R Hastie, Roman A Wiles, Terry M Mayhew and Francis JP Ebling
    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2008 6:4
  47. In pregnancy, maternal serum concentrations of calcitriol significantly rise as a result of increased renal and placental contribution in order to assure calcium supply for the developing fetus. Considering th...

    Authors: David Barrera, Euclides Avila, Guillermo Hernández, Isabel Méndez, Leticia González, Ali Halhali, Fernando Larrea, Angélica Morales and Lorenza Díaz
    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2008 6:3

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