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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"assisted reproduction"”.
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Clinically Assisted Reproduction Among Sexual Minority Women: Plans, Pivots, And Partnered-Decisions
… engaged in trying to conceive with clinically assisted reproduction (CAR), in the United States. Using a three-paper approach, this dissertation addresses three facets of coupled SMW’s experiences: 1) fertility related information needs, seeking, and use; 2) experiences of sexual minority …
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Assisted reproduction: Deciding what's best for the child, the family, and our society
… in the three more controversial areas of assisted reproduction: artificial insemination, in vitro fertilization, and surrogate motherhood. Policy-making is mostly done indirectly and haphazardly through the courts and some state and federal legislation. There has been no organized national …
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Studies on genetic aberrations as possible predictors of the outcome of assisted reproduction
… of the involuntarily childless couples seek for assisted reproduction (ART), however, the “baby-take-home rates” in ART are still relatively low. One of the reasons for this is a lack of adequate methods to evaluate the fertility potential of a couple and also a lack of methods to identify the …
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Narrated Experiences of Medically Assisted Reproduction in Hungary - Infertility from a Multimethod Perspective
… experiences of female patients using medically assisted reproductive technologies in Hungary. In general, the aim of the thesis research is to explore patients’ constructed narratives about infertility and reproduction technologies used in treatment. Further goal is to understand the role of …
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Altered microrna expression profiles in bovine fetuses with an assisted reproduction-induced congenital overgrowth syndrome
… OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Assisted reproductive technologies (ART) refer to a series of fertility treatments used to conceive offspring. ART is used worldwide in humans for treatment of infertility and in ruminants to improve genetic merit. The use of ART can induce …
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Equitable Access to Assisted Reproduction: Designing regulation for efficacious realisation of the right to reproductive health
… of distributive justice in the regulation of assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs). Focusing on in-vitro fertilisation and gamete cryopreservation, it locates an entitlement to access ARTs within the international human right to the highest attainable standard of health under Article 12 of …
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Understanding Attitudes toward In-Vitro Fertilization and Support for Less Restrictive In-Vitro Fertilization Policies: The Influence of Family, Information Processing, Media, and Science
… individuals' attitude and support toward assisted reproduction, and how message content can persuade individuals to hold more favorable attitudes and support, respectively. The first study recruited undergraduate students from two mid-sized universities and asked participants to complete …
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Outcome of assisted reproductive technology in women with poor ovarian response undergoing infertility treatment in the reproductive medicine unit of Groote Schuur hospital: a five-year review
… poor ovarian responders in women undergoing assisted reproduction technology in the public sector of Western Cape Province of South Africa. Method: Retrospective review of data of women who underwent assisted reproduction technology between January 2011 and December 2015 was conducted. The …
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Negative biomarkers of sperm quality and male fertility
… to predict reproductive performance in an assisted reproduction setting. In-depth analysis carried out quickly and with repeatable precision on a large number of sperm cells is important to human assisted reproductive therapies (ART) and farm animal biotechnology. As a result, flow …
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L'embryon ex utero : entre l'être et le néant
The improvement of medically assisted reproduction technologies have raised many complex legal and ethical issues. The possibility to create embryos in a laboratory and to allow them to survive outside the womb questions well-known legal ideas. The author analyses the legal status of ex utero human …
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Impact of an artificial insemination programme on reproductive efficacy and the cross-breeding if indigenous South African goats with Boer goats in Vhembe District
… no attempt has been made to establish animal-assisted reproduction centres designed to facilitate controlled goat breeding, from which efficient oestrous synchronization and artificial insemination (AI) protocols can be administered in the communal farming areas of Vhembe district. The first …
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Investigation of spermatozoal metabolism and substrate utilization in domestic and non-domestic felids
… of spermatozoa is a critical aspect of assisted reproduction. However in most cases, this process causes diminished spermatozoal function and low cellular survival. The effects of cryopreservation are further compounded in spermatozoa from individuals with disorders known to affect …
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Βιολογική Θεώρηση των Ιερών Κανόνων
… chapters developed are about contraception, assisted reproduction, embryocide, age, bodily secretions, fasting, Holy Communion, biological sexes, suicide and holy relics.
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Against Eternity: A Critical Reading of Transhumanism
… transhuman thinking alongside sterilization and assisted reproduction, I identify a eugenic link between transhumanism and reproductive medicine. I then reveal how contemporary transhumanism functions through a paradigm of potential wherein value is determined by the speculations of venture …
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Post-Internet Queer Reproductive Work and The fixed Capital of Fertility: The Interface, the Network and the Viral as Themes and Modes of artistic Response
… digital infrastructures and interfaces of the Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ARTs) industry as a depository for human memory and a powerful translation zone where beliefs regarding social and biological reproduction are fashioned today. Offering an innovative take on the dynamic …
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Fortpflanzungsphysiologie und assistierte Reproduktion beim Haushund (Canis familiaris) - eine Literaturstudie
… the evaluation of literature about physiology of reproduction, assisted reproduction technologies and associated biotechniques in domestic dogs (Canis familiaris). In the bitch preovulatory follicular luteinization results in exposure of oocytes to increasing concentrations of progesterone 1-2 …
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The impact of GnRH-agonist triggers on autologous in vitro fertilization outcomes: A retrospective analysis
BACKGROUND: In vitro fertilization in assisted reproduction requires controlled ovarian stimulation with exogenous gonadotrophins and oocyte maturation before ultrasound guided aspiration. GnRH-agonists have been utilized as an alternative to hCG for oocyte maturation prior to follicle aspiration. …
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Magnetic Micromotors in Assisted Reproductive Technology
… for two applications in the field of assisted reproductive technology. First, as synthetic motor units for individual sperm cells, representing a novel approach to counteract sperm immotility (asthenozoospermia), which is one of the most prevalent causes of male infertility. Second, as …
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Profiling L-serine Transport Throughout Growth and Meiotic Maturation in Mouse Oocytes
With the increasing demand for assisted reproduction, more knowledge and understanding towards health requirements of oocytes and their inner workings are required. With current IVF success rates of approximately 40%, oocyte and embryo culture conditions in vitro can be improved by first …
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Exploring Knowledge and Perspectives of Artificial Womb Technology in Canada and Australia: A Qualitative Multi-Methods Study
… J.B.S. 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 …
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