Prolactin

Around 80% of patients' prolactin levels were restored to normal with cabergoline and many will have marked tumor shrinkage, making surgery unnecessary. The drugs octreotide or pegvisomant can help to control the production of growth hormone and are used in conjunction with…

3. RESULTS 3.1. Patients and controls All patients and controls were in Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium () The rs243324 polymorphism showed evidence of Hardy–Weinberg disequilibrium in the patients and controls in total (P¼0.001) but not in the children in ALSPAC (Table 1), this was due to a slight excess in heterozygotes compared with the number expected The mean age of disease onset was 29.5 (ranging from 17-46) years, and the mean duration of disease was 5.46 (ranging from 1-31) years. Some…

Parts of the brain most affected There are multiple facial abnormalities that occur with FAS, but brain abnormalities are also a huge aspect of this syndrome.9 Studies have shown that brain volume in patients with FAS is less than people with healthy brains. Another difference is in the parietal and ventral frontal lobes where the gray matter is denser and underdeveloped in babies with FAS. Also, the temporal, inferior parietal lobe, and right frontal lobe were thicker than a normal brain.9…

At birth, about 75% of babies are breast fed, but by the age of six months only 21% of infants are exclusively breastfed. Breastfeeding is the best way to keep your child healthy and happy. Many people choose to formula feed their infants, but it just doesn’t live up to the quality of breast milk. There are an abundance of reasons to choose breastfeeding over manufactured formula. The first reason breast milk is far superior is colostrum. This is often times referred to as liquid gold, because…

Infertility is a condition in which a person is not able to reproduce by natural means after 12 months (or longer) of unprotected sexual intercourse on a regular basis. If a woman is older than age 35, infertility is defined as not being able to reproduce in such a situation after six months. Infertility may describe both a woman who is unable to conceive as well as a woman who is unable to carry a pregnancy to full term. Infertility in males may be due to issues including a low sperm count,…

While implantation occurs, blastocyst is being concerted into gastrula, in which three germ layers from and embryonic membranes develop. The beginning is when the inner cell mass differs into two layers which are the epiblast and the hypoblast. Both of these cells form four embryonic membranes which are the amnion, the yolk sac, allantois, the umbilical cord, and the chorion. The amnion provides a buoyant environment which protects the embryo from physical trauma and helps maintain a constant…

Breastfeeding v. Formula Feeding Mothers have been breastfeeding their children for hundreds of years. In these times bottle feeding is being looked at as a more convenient and easier way to feed the baby. Bottle Feeding is neglecting a child of the important vitamins and nutrients it takes to thrive in the world. Breastfeeding is the best natural choice for mothers to do for their babies. They need to proteins in the milk that helps them form a defense against the diseases that plague this…

Polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) is one of the most common endocrine disorders that is known to affect women during reproductive years. This disorder is characterized by hyperandrogenism, chronic anovulation, and typical morphologic changes of the ovaries (Pan, Chen, Tsao, & Chen, 2015). PCOS is estimated to have a prevalence of 5%-10% of reproductive aged women (Grossman & Porth). The symptoms that accompany this disorder include menstrual irregularity, obesity, infertility, and androgen…

tissue and glands that lay upon a woman 's chest, the breast. What exactly is the function of the breast? The breast is special tissue found in the pectoral region of the body. It contains lobes that, when the body produces enough of the hormone prolactin, produces milk made to feed offspring(The Breast..,2014). Though the breast is used to create breast milk if needed, it is not considered a sexual organ, for it is not needed during reproduction. Then why is there censorship of the breast?…

Gender and Sex Growing up as a child, I was taught that sex and gender meant either boy or girl, male or female and masculine or feminine and therefore, they were synonymous. Presently, I have a more profound understanding of the differentiation between gender and sex but consequently, I can speak only for myself and can imagine the many people in the world with my former ideology. For this reason and more I believe that sociologist find it imperative to distinguish gender and sex. Not to…