Endometrium

Progesterone is crucial in childbearing years. Inadequate progesterone makes it difficult to get pregnant or maintaining a pregnancy. Progesterone thickens uterus lining every month in preparation for fertilized egg implantation. In case a pregnancy takes place, production of progesterone takes place in the placenta. For the entire period of the pregnancy, progesterone levels remain elevated. You can now understand the importance of progesterone. If progesterone levels are low, the doctor…

Introduction Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) is due to fetal alcohol exposure, and is the most serious case of the Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders1. The embryonic development period between three and eight weeks are when the most birth defects occur, but pregnant women are advised not to consume alcohol during their entire pregnancy due to the adverse effects that alcohol can have on their child2. This paper will analyze the dangers of alcohol to a developing embryo or fetus, the manifestation…

Child obesity is a huge problem in america, it seems that everyday the next generation of kids just gets heavier and heavier. Some ways to prevent this would to show are kids good, healthy eating habits. They need to have a time in the day where you are actually physically active. WIth all the technology in the world today, kids just want to sit inside and play video games and eat potato chips. Some immediate effects of obesity in a kid, is it increases the chance of getting a cardiovascular…

There are some challenges in order to produce monozygotic twins in a rhesus monkey. There are two major challenges which are the deficient pregnancy rates following embryo transfer and the inherent difficulties in supporting twin pregnancy in a rhesus monkey. Rhesus monkey is not normally carried twins but in certain cases where the species naturally occurring twin pregnancies, the offspring rarely survive. The twins are usually born smaller and weaker than the single babies due to the…

different subpopulations. NK-cells are widely distributed in the body: they are found in the spleen, liver, peripheral blood, where they number can be up to 9 billion (or 5-20% of the lymphocytes), in a small amount in the lymph nodes and in decidual endometrium.…

Describe examples of three biological specimens that can be analyzed using toxicology to provide evidence in a criminal case. Blood, urine, and liver. Blood can be analyzed is often the specimen of choice for detecting, quantifying and interpreting drugs and other toxicant concentrations. Concentrations of drugs and other toxicants in blood may be useful for establishing recent drug ingestion and to determine the effect of a drug on the deceased at the time of death, or at the time the blood was…

All living organisms, including humans, reproduce to ensure the survival of their species. The male and female reproductive systems are essential for reproduction. The main purpose of the male reproductive system is to produce and deliver sperm into the female reproductive system. The main purpose of the female reproductive system is to produce egg cells and to nurture a fertilized egg so it is able to develop into a fetus. The male and female reproductive systems are distinct from one another…

peroxidase may also be involved in regulating the adhesiveness of the deciduoma for the attachment of the blasotcyst as suggested earlier (Agrawal and Laloraya,1979). Peroxidase was suggested to have a role in regulating the stickiness of the uterine endometrium and blastocyst or of both, which is essential for implantation (Agrawal &…

thought to be caused by abnormal placental development. During the implantation stage of the blastocyst, the trophoblast cells on the outside of the embryo attach to the endometrial lining of the uterus and the embryo begins to work its way into the endometrium (3). Shortly after…

cancer incidence. In fact, he believes that it would reduce the number of incidents of the most common cancers by a third, if more of us kept our weight at a healthy level. The cancers linked to being overweight include cancer of the breast and endometrium (lining of the womb), the esophagus, the gallbladder, the kidney, the bowel and the pancreas.…