Sentences with phrase «genital tract»

This increased incidence is due to higher rates of genital tract melanomas in women.

In addition, serum - derived IgG, which is produced locally, diffuses paracellularly through type II mucosal tissue in the female genital tract in particular.

New research uncovers three methods of HIV development in the male genital tract that can make the virus look different from blood - borne populations

Long - term and frequent use of aspirin is associated with significantly decreased risk of cervical cancer, according to a study led by researchers at Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) and published in the Journal of Lower Genital Tract Disease.

«A particularly noteworthy accomplishment by the IVI has been the development of a sublingually administered vaccine which has demonstrated efficacy in eliciting mucosal immunity against respiratory and genital tract infections,» he notes.

The test aims to detect and prevent the progression of HPV - induced cervical cancer and other abnormalities in the female genital tract by sampling cells from the outer opening of the cervix of the uterus and the endocervix.

* Overall severe morbidity and mortality defined as one or more of the following: death, postpartum bleeding, genital tract injury; wound disruption, wound infection, or both; systemic infection.

In comparison, human sperm survives in a woman's upper genital tract for a mere 3 to 5 days.

Students were randomly allocated to three groups and taught palpation and ultrasonography of the equine genital tract in different ways.

Meanwhile, viruses in the female genital tract showed no correlation with HIV risk.

Mycoplasma genitalium, which lives in the human genital tract with just 482 protein - coding genes (compared to about 20,000 in the human genome), became the second bacterial genome ever sequenced, in 1995, and remained the smallest known to scientists for about a decade.

«HIV - 1 movement across genital tract cells surprisingly enhanced by usurping antibody response.»

In a study appearing in the November issue of PLoS Pathogens, Dr. Donald Forthal of UC Irvine and colleagues studied the mechanisms employed by the virus to cross genital tract tissue and establish infection.

Chemokine - mediated immune responses in the female genital tract mucosa.

The mucosal lining of the female genital tract differs from that of the gastrointestinal tract in terms of cellular composition, microflora, and effector mechanisms of innate and adaptive immunity, although it should be noted that the immunologic anatomy and biology of the genital, anal, and lower rectal tract mucosae are less well defined than those of the remainder of the gastrointestinal tract.

Her keen interest area is surgical oncopathology — head and neck, uro - oncopathology, GIT and female genital tract pathology.

This is not the kind of thing you want to have in the vulnerable genital tract, so if you think your little friend may have phthalates, roll a condom over it.

Candida overgrowth can is also common in the uro - genital tract notably in females causing bladder infections, vaginal thrush and vaginitis.

There are many causes for canine penile problems and diseases of the maile genital tract, many of which many not be discussed here.

Canine herpesvirus (CHV) Signs: in adult dogs, only upper respiratory or genital tract signs, but can cause stillbirth, abortion and puppy mortality.

Therefore, if bacteria from the lower genital tract ascend into the uterus, a devastating infection may ensue.

Associations between Vaginal Douching Practice and Lower Genital Tract Symptoms and Menstrual Disorders among Young Women: A Search for Risk Modulating Factors

Previous research had found that a protein found in the male genital tract (prostatic acid phosphatase) can boost HIV's infectiousness by 50 to 100,000 times.

(The cloaca is a combination of genital tract and end of the digestive system found in many invertebrates and most vertebrates, except most mammals.)

The case - control study was recently published in the Journal of Lower Genital Tract Disease.

-- Carolina Sanitá Tafner Ferreira — Journal Of Lower Genital Tract Disease

What it does: Enterococcus bacteria typically live harmoniously in the human intestines and female genital tract, but are also the leading causes of blood, surgical wound, and urinary tract infections.

If it's a malignant infection, the baby may get contaminated while passing through the genital tract.

She'll also instruct you in a postpartum perineal hygiene, which helps prevent infection of not only the repair site but the genital tract as well (germs can get around).

What if a baby doesn't breathe... natural resuscitation methods Healing and assessing tears in the postpartum Instinctual Breastfeeding and the Breast crawl The Physiology of Neonatal Jaundice and Vit K Structural disorders of the genital tract as a result of birth: Cystocele, Rectocele, Incontinence, Fistula

Don't bother with washes and wipes meant to keep the vagina clean or stop odor because they could be irritating and change the pH in your genital tract (again increasing your chances of a vaginal infection).

«The best explanation for what we are seeing is that frequently, after exposure to HIV, a few cells in the genital tract are infected, without establishment of a systemic infection,» says senior investigator Eric Hunter, PhD, professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at Emory University School of Medicine, Emory Vaccine Center, and Yerkes National Primate Research Center.

As researchers have been uncovering a growing number of differences between the semen - based virus and blood - borne populations — and the number of people with the virus continues to rise rapidly — the race to piece together a better understanding of the virus's makeup and behavior in the male genital tract has grown ever more urgent.

In the last four years, the U.S. - based Human Microbiome Project used genomic analysis to identify bacteria, viruses, fungi, archaea, and protozoa in the noses, gums, tonsils, genital tracts, and guts of 242 healthy Americans between the ages of 18 and 40; more than 11,000 samples were taken in all.

A new series of studies reveals three distinct ways in which virus populations in the male genital tract can arise, paving the way for more refined research into virus dynamics at this crucial transmission site.

But many men had virus populations in their genital tract that looked quite different from those in their blood.

In the other process, the virus replicates in immune T cells in the genital tract over months or years, «creating a separate population of virus that is both complex and distinct from the virus in the blood,» Anderson and Ping explained.

«In some men, the virus population was very similar to that in the blood, suggesting that the virus was being imported from the blood to the genital tract,» Anderson and Ping explained.

With regard to ultrasonography of the genital tract, there were no major differences between groups.

The U.S. - based Human Microbiome Project used genomic analysis to I.D. microbes in the noses, gums, tonsils, genital tracts and guts of more than 200 Americans.

The most common source of sepsis (implicated in about a third of cases) was a genital tract infection.

The authors, led by Professor Marian Knight from the University of Oxford, also found that the onset of severe sepsis is often very rapid, and women who have recently had an infection, such as a urine, genital tract or respiratory infection, are at particularly high risk of developing severe maternal sepsis.

While he waits he courts her, going so far as to «copulate» with her, even though her genital tract is still sealed, making it...

However, the work does identify a new mechanism to potentially reduce vaginal inflammation and thus HIV risk by helping women with diverse bacterial communities in their genital tract become more Lactobacillus dominant.

The tool, a vaginal implant, decreases the number of cells that the HIV virus can target in a woman's genital tract.

The reasons seem obvious: ulcerations and inflammation increase the likelihood of bleeding, and raise the number of immune cells present in the genital tract that are susceptible to infection.

In women younger than 18, the layer of cells lining the cervix and genital tract is thinner than in mature women.

It is easier to achieve the target ratio in rectal tissue than in cervical and vaginal tissues, according to the scientists, because the concentration of DNA molecules is lower and of tenofovir is higher in rectal tissue than in the female genital tract.