Sentences with phrase «ovarian tissue in»

One would think that if there is a remnant of ovarian tissue in the spayed pet's abdomen, the surgeon must have left it behind.

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Sara Matthews, a consultant gynecologist at the Portland hospital, said that within three months of having her ovarian tissue re-implanted, Al Matrooshi went from being menopausal to having the ovary function of a normal woman in her 20s.

In July, a 33 - year - old woman in Edinburgh became the first in Britain to give birth after having frozen ovarian tissue returned to her bodIn July, a 33 - year - old woman in Edinburgh became the first in Britain to give birth after having frozen ovarian tissue returned to her bodin Edinburgh became the first in Britain to give birth after having frozen ovarian tissue returned to her bodin Britain to give birth after having frozen ovarian tissue returned to her body.

Helen Picton, who oversaw the tissue - freezing at Leeds University, told the BBC that in Europe alone, several thousand girls and young women have had ovarian tissue frozen and stored.

As humans, we've developed ways to donate blood, tissue, organs, and even sperm and ovarian eggs in recent generations, but human milk has been shared since women began having babies.

For it to be useful, cryopreserved ovarian tissue must thaw in a way that maintains its original cellular structure and function.

Zelinski and her colleagues have found they can reliably thaw ovarian tissue by placing it in a series of solutions with lower concentrations of sucrose, a medical - grade table sugar.

ONPRC researchers also have been investigating two ways of maturing follicles from cryopreserved, thawed tissue: transplanting strips of ovarian tissue back into a monkey's body, or growing the tissue in vitro by encapsulating individual follicles in a biomaterial that mimics an ovary.

In this study, researchers analyzed ovarian tissue from populations of reproductively «young» (equivalent to women in their early twenties) and «old» mice (equivalent to women ages 38 - 45In this study, researchers analyzed ovarian tissue from populations of reproductively «young» (equivalent to women in their early twenties) and «old» mice (equivalent to women ages 38 - 45in their early twenties) and «old» mice (equivalent to women ages 38 - 45).

If the approach works in women it could be used to boost fertility or help those who froze ovarian tissue prior to chemotherapy.

309 ovarian tissue freezing procedures resulted in 84 births and 8 pregnancies that lasted beyond the first trimester.

This resulted in the conception of a boy with normal genitalia and a girl who was developing both ovarian and testicular tissue.

So his team looked for cells with vasa still on their surface in human ovarian tissue.

The HFEA report had the same reason for opposing the use of fetuses, albeit in less emotive language: «The public... may feel an instinctive repugnance to the use of ovarian tissue from these sources for research or fertility treatment.»

Spontaneous immune responses were assessed by measuring serum antibodies against ovarian cancer - associated antigens, such as NY - ESO - 1, that are not expressed in normal body tissues but are expressed in cancers.

These claims were based on subjective observations of ovarian tissue and on the behavior of extremely rare ovarian cells following extensive growth in tissue culture, a procedure that is capable of «reprogramming» cells.

Researchers from Haukeland University Hospital in Bergen, Norway, and colleagues analyzed for potential impact of normal tissue BRCA1 methylation on ovarian cancer risk.

A HUMAN ovary grown in the lab from slivers of ovarian tissue has been able to turn an immature egg into one that is ready to be fertilised.

In a world first, Ouarda Touirat, a 32 - year - old cancer survivor in Belgium, delivered a healthy baby this year after undergoing an ovarian tissue transplanIn a world first, Ouarda Touirat, a 32 - year - old cancer survivor in Belgium, delivered a healthy baby this year after undergoing an ovarian tissue transplanin Belgium, delivered a healthy baby this year after undergoing an ovarian tissue transplant.

Tal Biron - Shental, a gynecologist at Meir Hospital in Israel, also faced intense criticism when she described her team's attempts to cultivate ovarian tissue from 22 - to 33 - week - old aborted fetuses.

The use of fetal ovarian tissue for fertility purposes has been banned in the United Kingdom since 1994.

Recently Kutluk Oktay, the chief of reproductive endocrinology and infertility at New York Methodist Hospital in Brooklyn, has been experimenting with freezing and transplanting swatches of ovarian tissue.

While individual, already - developed eggs die easily when frozen, immature follicle eggs embedded in the ovarian tissue fare a lot better.

Egg cells can also be preserved in their hundreds of thousands by collecting ovarian tissue from reproductively active females that die in captivity and dunking it in liquid nitrogen.

«Ovarian cancer treatments have not changed much in many decades, and this may be, in part, because we have been studying the wrong tissue of origin for these cancers,» says study leader Victor Velculescu, M.D., Ph.D., a professor of oncology at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center.

The need for better access to fertility preservation has become more pressing in recent years for two reasons: first, the improved rates of survival in young women and girls diagnosed with cancer; and second, improvements in the techniques of freezing eggs and ovarian tissue to restore fertility.

In their research, scientists at Rutgers created animal models that closely resemble the cancerous tumors found in women with ovarian cancer by injecting tumor tissues obtained from gynecological cancer patients treated at the Cancer Institute into laboratory micIn their research, scientists at Rutgers created animal models that closely resemble the cancerous tumors found in women with ovarian cancer by injecting tumor tissues obtained from gynecological cancer patients treated at the Cancer Institute into laboratory micin women with ovarian cancer by injecting tumor tissues obtained from gynecological cancer patients treated at the Cancer Institute into laboratory mice.

For the new study, described in the October 23rd issue of Nature Communications, scientists at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston collected tissue samples containing normal cells, ovarian cancers, metastases that had spread elsewhere, and small cancers found in the fallopian tubes, which included single cell layers of cancer called «p53 signatures» and serous tubal intraepithelial carcinoma, or STIC lesions.

Sometimes ovarian teratomas with brain cells in can lead to personality changes, paranoid thoughts or seizures if the immune system recognises the tissue as foreign and starts to attack both it and cells in the brain.

The study team assessed three sets of outcomes: a maturational index (MI) based on epithelial cells from the children's urogenital tissue; ultrasound measurements of uterine, ovarian and testicular volume, as well as breast - buds; and hormone concentrations seen in blood tests.

The process from beginning to end, starting with immature eggs within ovarian tissue before reaching mature eggs in the final bottom right image (Credit: Prof Evelyn Telfer and Dr Marie McLaughlin, the University of Edinburgh)

The process from beginning to end, starting with immature eggs within ovarian tissue before reaching mature eggs in the final bottom right image

Most ovarian cancers are serous carcinomas, which develop in the tissue lining the ovaries and are subtyped into high - grade and low - grade.

«This fatty tissue, which is extraordinarily rich in energy - dense lipids, acts as a launching pad and energy source for the likely lethal spread of ovarian cancer,» said study author Ernst Lengyel, MD, PhD, professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Chicago.

A group in Edinburgh where this work has been pioneered in the UK has ovarian tissue stored for many women, but as yet none have returned to have it reimplanted.

«Therefore,» the authors wrote, «FABP4 emerges as an excellent target in the treatment of intra-abdominally disseminating tumors, which preferentially metastasize to adipose tissue such as ovarian, gastric, and colon cancers.»

Clinical and laboratory studies have shown that NY - ESO - 1 is present in many different cancers — including melanoma, lung, breast, and ovarian cancers — and not in most healthy tissue.

ab51608 staining HIF -1-alpha in Human ovarian carcinoma tissue sections by Immunohistochemistry (IHC - P - paraformaldehyde - fixed, paraffin - embedded sections).

Ovarian tissue is more sensitive to aging than any other tissue in the human body (whaaat!)

Estrogen (from estrus, meaning «heat» or «fertility») is the dominant hormone for the first week or so after menstruation, stimulating the buildup of tissue and blood in the uterus as the ovarian follicles simultaneously begin their development of the egg.

This is significant because your ovarian tissue is literally THE most sensitive to aging than any other tissue in the human body (whaaat!)

Authors conclude «restoration of normal menses was caused by reduced inflammation in the ovarian tissue and supports the hypothesis that the gut immune system can influence autoimmune disease and inflammation.»

... The estrogenic compounds of the root are not the type that have an effect on the uterus or the breast tissue, but rather they are perceived by the hypothalamus of the brain as an estrogen metabolite and tend to lessen the pituitary surges of luteinizing hormone (LH) in the absence of ovarian estrogens.

According to the study authors, tissue and fluid collected during a Pap test can detect endometrial and ovarian cancer in women when subjected to genetic testing.

In the situation of this type of tumor, signs of heat are constant; they do not cycle as with ovarian tissue.

Most likely some ovarian tissue was left in the body during surgery and that tissue releases hormones that cause the animal to go into heat.

Ultrasonography may also be helpful: it shows possible consolidation in tissues (ovarian tumor or cyst in this case).

While the canine ability to detect the presence of ovarian cancer is well - established, researchers aren't sure exactly which chemicals the dogs are detecting in the tissue and plasma samples.

Her team's work builds on that of Swedish researcher György Horvath, who's shown that dogs have a 100 percent sensitivity and 98 percent specificity to detect ovarian cancer in plasma and tissue samples.