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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Human reproduction"”.
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An investigation into placental protein 14, a modulator of the immune response associated with human reproduction.
… Protein 14 (PP14), a immunomodulator involved in human reproduction. The studies included the development of a purification procedure and an investigation of the activity of the protein. In addition the cDNA coding for the protein was cloned and expressed as a recombinant fusion protein and the …
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How Irish law can recognise intending parentage while vindicating the child’s right to identity in assisted human reproduction
… through the lens of the introduction of Assisted Human Reproduction (AHR). AHR is the practice of using reproductive technologies such as insemination or embryo formation and implantation to assist an individual or couple to conceive a child. Most relevant for this thesis is that among these …
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The Impact Of Mitochondria On Preimplantation Development In The Rhesus Macaque
<p>Assisted Reproduction Technologies (ART) have been used to treat infertility since 1790. In the centuries following, dramatic advances have been made in the field of infertility research through the employment of a variety of species. Despite these advances, determination of oocyte and embryo …
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Stories of reproductive technology and the search for discursive authority.
… while providing other meanings associated with human reproduction. The field of legal discourse presents an opportunity to counter the power of scientific discourse by rejecting notions of objectivity and absolute truth and allowing multiple voices to be heard.
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That Rotten Richness': Old Maids and Reproductive Anxiety In U.S. Southern Fiction, 1923-1946
… in three registers: as a source of racialized human reproduction, as an analog to the land, and as a metaphor for the South itself. In the work of Ellen Glasgow, William Faulkner, Katherine Anne Porter, and Richard Wright, the figure of the old maid serves a variety of symbolic purposes; these …
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Exploring Knowledge and Perspectives of Artificial Womb Technology in Canada and Australia: A Qualitative Multi-Methods Study
… Haldane brought to life the concept of assisted reproduction by envisioning ectogenesis, that is gestation outside of the human body, as the future of science. Since then, the concept of artificial womb technology has featured in bioethical debates as well as in the public imagination through …
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Sociosexual Development: Infusing the Belsky, Steinberg, and Draper Model with Sexual Selection
… to explain the variation observed in human reproduction, including the timing of reproductive events and individual differences in orientation toward mating and parenting. In Part I of the following paper, I review research related to life history theory and sexual selection in humans. …
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Traditional postpartum care : alloparenting from an evolutionary perspective
… care and its variation across different human populations using an evolutionary framework. Whereas traditional healthcare may have been geared towards ensuring mother and infant recovery by keeping them from contact with outsiders, postpartum care in modern societies is often relatively …
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A Healthy Pregnancy Curriculum For Adolescent Mothers: Participants' Perceptions And Effects On Infants' Birth Weight
… topics and changes in behaviors in the areas of Human Reproduction, Nutrition, Health-Care Practices, Environmental Effects on the Unborn Baby, and Decision Making.
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The value of urodynamics prior to surgery for stress urinary incontinence
Contains fulltext : 100582.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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ICSI children. Follow-up after ICSI with ejaculated or non-ejaculated sperm.
Contains fulltext : 91329.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Guidelines in IUI care. Implications for quality improvement
Contains fulltext : 91449.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Surgery for Pelvic Organ Prolapse with emphasis on the anterior compartment
Contains fulltext : 112917.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Straighten up and breed White: The representation of race and sexuality in films about reproductive technologies
… as monstrous. Because technological reproduction is demarcated as monstrous, non-technological reproduction is naturalized. Importantly, this naturalized reproduction in the films is not only non-technological, but specifically derived from heterosex and racially consistent. In this …
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Effects of Quaternary Ammonium Disinfectants on Mouse Reproductive Function
… Extensive use of QACs results in ubiquitous human exposure to potentially toxic compounds. Reproductive toxicity of two common QACs, alkyl dimethyl benzyl ammonium chloride (ADBAC) and didecyl dimethyl ammonium chloride (DDAC), was investigated to determine gender-specific toxicity with an …
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Hyperactivated motility in human sperm: regulation, function and significance in IVF
… hamster, however a number of clinical studies in humans have also suggested that its expression is linked to male fertility both in vivo and in vitro. The expression of hyperactivation appears to be controlled both by Ca2+ entry through plasma membrane CatSper channels and by Ca2+ release from …
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Andrological Methods of Predicting the Pregnancy Outcome of an <i>in vitro</i> Fertilization Program
<p>Current advances in fertility treatment emphasize extracorporeal procedures, such as in vitro fertilization (IVF)/embryo transfer. IVF is now used to treat several types of infertility, including male factor and idiopathic infertility. However, IVF is time consuming, costly, unpredictable, and …
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The physiological significance of insemination in programming pregnancy outcome
The cellular and molecular environment of the uterus during the pre - and peri - implantation period of early pregnancy is critical for implantation success and optimal fetal and placental development. Perturbations to this environment not only have consequences for the success of pregnancy and …
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Female Pleasure and Theories of Desire in Narrative Structure: Evolution, Futurity, and Species Survival in the Post-Human and Science Fiction Imaginary
… in its relation to evolution and biological reproduction, and the future survival of humanity imagined across the narrative structures of three 21st-century works of dystopian science fiction. By examining the genre's potential to address species survival specifically through female forms of …
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