Separation of Motile Bovine Spermatozoa for In Vitro Fertilization by Electrical Charge

Sperm selection is essential to Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART), influencing treatment outcomes and the health of the resulting offspring.

Several techniques have been developed to recover a homogeneous population of highly motile sperm cells, including centrifugation gradients, swim up and filtration procedures.

It is known that the head of spermatozoa has a negative electric charge, and several studies have tried to use this physiological characteristic for the selection of high quality motile sperm from frozen-thawed semen. The study aim was to design a device that would be able to separate viable, high quality sperm for IVF after thawing, using electrical characteristics of sperm.

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Quadruple Pregnancy after Post-advanced Assisted Technique Transfer of Blastocysts

Report the case of a quadruple pregnancy (monochorionic diamniotic and dichorionic diamniotic) after the transfer of two blastocysts generated by intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI).

A 29-year-old woman patient with transfer of two blastocysts after long cultivation of 6 embryos generated by ICSI and vitrified in d+3, in a couple with primary infertility diagnosis due to male factor.

This revealed quadruple pregnancy (monochorionic diamniotic and dichorionic diamniotic) of 56 days of evolution by transvaginal ultrasound.

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Inborn Errors of Metabolism as Mimickers of Pediatric Neuropsychiatric Disorders: Phenylketonuria as an Example

Phenylalanine hydroxylase (PAH) deficiency, commonly known as phenylketonuria (PKU), is one of the most common inborn errors of amino acid metabolism.

It is inherited as an autosomal recessive trait. Prevalance of PKU is approximately 1:10000 in Europe and 1:15000 in the USA but may vary widely in other regions of the world.

Due to the high rate of consanguineous marriages (20-25%) [2], diseases with autosomal recessive inheritance are common in Turkey and estimated incidence of persistent hyperphenylalaninemia is one in 4000-4500 live births.

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Pattern, Causes and Treatment Outcomes of Neonatal Admission in the Tamale Teaching Hospital

Neonatal admission generally refers to the admission of newborns under 29 days old into a health facility for medical care. Because neonates are fragile and yet to develop competent immune system, they are prone to infections, and most of the illnesses they acquire usually require critical care, hence their admission to the neonatal intensive care units (NICUs).

Neonatal infections may begin in-utero, early in labour or postpartum. The causes of neonatal admissions are not limited to infections but also non-infectious causes including metabolic, genetic and developmental defects.

Factors influencing neonatal admissions include socio-cultural and behavioral effects such as illiteracy, socioeconomic deprivation, traditional beliefs, and foetal gender bias preferences of parents.

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Family Planning Service Utilization and Its Associated Factors among Married Women in Benchi-Maji Zone, Southwest, Ethiopia: Community-Based Crosssectional Study

In Ethiopia, contraceptive use has doubled in the last five years, but women still bears an average of five children and 25% of married women want to space or limit their births but are not currently using contraception.

So that, the purpose of this study was to assess Family planning services utilization and its associated factors among married women in Benchi-Maji Zone, Southwest, Ethiopia.

A community based cross sectional study was carried out to collect data from 801 randomly selected married women in the reproductive age group from six Kebles (lowest administrative unit). Pretested and structured questionnaire was used to collect data.

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Effect of Docosahexaenoic Acid Supplementation on Glucose Tolerance and Markers of Inflammation in Overweight/Obese Pregnant Women: A Double-blind, Randomized, Controlled Trial

Obese, pregnant women have exacerbated inflammation and insulin resistance that put them and their fetus at risk for adverse prenatal outcomes and future risk of cardiometabolic disease.

Our objective was to determine the effects of 10 weeks of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) supplementation on glucose tolerance and markers of inflammation in healthy, overweight/obese, pregnant women.

Using a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial, 60 women, with a pregravid body mass index ≥ 25 consumed placebo or DHA (800 mg DHA, algal oil) capsules for 10 weeks from 26 to 36 weeks gestation.

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Unintended Pregnancy: Magnitude and Associated Factors among Pregnant Women

Unintended pregnancy is an important public health challenge in many corner of the world especially in developing countries. Different efforts have been applied to reduce unintended pregnancy, but it is still increasing in Africa specifically in Ethiopia.

Therefore, the aim of this study was to identify the magnitude and associated factors of unintended pregnancy among pregnant women in Arba Minch town, Southern Ethiopia.

A community based cross-sectional study design was conducted from February 15th to March 11th 2015 among 288 randomly selected pregnant women.

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Maternal Smoking during Pregnancy and Its Impact on Postnatal Neurodevelopment

Nicotine from maternal active smoking or environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) is still the most prevalent substance of abuse during pregnancy in industrialized countries.

The negative effects of exposure to tobacco smoke on foetus development have been widely described: impaired foetal growth and increased risks for gestational and perinatal outcomes.

The aim of this review was to provide an overview on prenatal nicotine exposure and its behavioral and neurodevelopmental deleterious effects in new-borns and children.

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Psycho-Social Influence of Multimedia Violence amongst Children of School Age in Ile-Ife, Nigeria

The study established the influence of psycho-social influence of multimedia violence on children of school age in Ile-Ife, Nigeria. A total of 150 school age children involved in the study were randomly selected from four different schools constituted the sample for the study.

Two validated instruments used for the study were author-constructed questionnaires with 0.71 and 0.76 reliability co-efficient respectively. The findings showed that 3.3% of the children were within the age 8-10 years, 3.3% were within the age 10-12 years, and 93.3% of the respondents within 13-15, 56.7% of the respondents were male while 43.3% were female.

73.3% of the students live in town with their parent while 26.7% live in staff quarters, 73.3% of the respondents spent an hour or less per day watching television. It further showed that 20.0% spent between 2 and 3 hours while 6.7% spent 7 hours and above watching television.

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