Comment:A short mail this week with news of a possible male contraceptive. What we now need is a test for women to confirm the male is actually taking the pill !!! Links to the walnut story and a interesting link to intrafollicular IUI
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A CONTRACEPTIVE pill for men may finally be on the horizon, after scientists reported promising results from a chemical that appears to allow a reversible suppression of sperm production in mice without reducing the animals' sex drive. The chemical changes the way DNA is formed inside developing sperm cells, leaving them unviable and causing them to die off.
Embryo Culture Conditions: What Embryos Like Best [2005]
Despite the triumph of IVF, there remain concerns about the procedures. Although the success of such artificial reproductive technologies (ART) has improved over the last 25 yr, a successful outcome for any couple is not ensured (2)
Maternal Diet and Other Factors Affecting Offspring Sex Ratio: A Review [2004]
As the diets fed to the mice in these experiments were nutritionally complete and because litter sizes did not differ between treatments, dietary inadequacy seems not to be the cause for sex-ratio distortion. A number of mechanisms, all of which are testable, are discussed to provide an explanation for the phenomenon. We conclude the review by discussing potential implications of these observations to human medicine and agriculture.
Male Mice Produced by In Vitro Culture Have Reduced Fertility and Transmit Organomegaly and Glucose Intolerance to Their Male Offspring
Suboptimal IVC reduced the expression of Kap1, Sox2, Hdac1, Dnmt1, and Dnmt3a, suggesting a molecular epigenetic role for gene expression modifiers in the origin and transmission of these abnormal phenotypes.
Small-Molecule Inhibition of BRDT for Male Contraception
Treatment of mice with JQ1 reduced seminiferous tubule area, testis size, and spermatozoa number and motility without affecting hormone levels. Although JQ1-treated males mate normally, inhibitory effects of JQ1 evident at the spermatocyte and round spermatid stages cause a complete and reversible contraceptive effect. These data establish a new contraceptive that can cross the blood:testis boundary and inhibit bromodomain activity during sperma
Walnuts Improve Semen Quality in Men Consuming a Western-Style Diet: Randomized Control Dietary Intervention Trial
Serum FA profiles improved in the walnut group with increases in omega-6 (p=0.0004) and omega-3 (p=0.0007) but not the control group. Only the plant source of omega-3, α:-linolenic acid (ALA), increased (p=0.0001). Sperm aneuploidy was inversely correlated with sperm ALA, particularly sex chromosome nullisomy (-0.41, p=0.002). Findings demonstrated that walnuts added to a Western-style diet improved sperm vitality, motility and morphology.
Effect of artificial shrinkage on clinical outcome in fresh blastocyst transfer cycles
CONCLUSION: These results suggest that AS of blastocoele cavity, followed by the transfer, would be a useful approach to improve the clinical outcome in cycles in which fresh blastocyst stage embryos are transferred.
Effect of culture medium volume and embryo density on early mouse embryonic development: Tracking the development of the individual embryo
Group embryo culture is superior to single embryo culture for blastocyst development. The WOW system with 50 μ:l of droplet of culture medium can be used to track the individual development of embryo cultured in groups while preserving good embryonic development. The reduced embryonic development with single embryo culture cannot be ameliorated by the WOW system.
In the latest issue of the journal Developmental Cell, scientists from the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (IGC), in Portugal, have dissected how sperm cells of the fruit fly build their flagella. These findings pave the way to further understand the molecules and processes that may trigger a variety of human diseases and disorders, including infertility, respiratory problems and hydrocephaly, known to be associated with defects in flagellar move
What is the law to do when people deceive each other about their intentions as parents? In what is thought to have been the first case of its kind, the UK's High Court in G v G [2012] has rejected a father's application to reverse an order transferring legal parenthood of a child from a surrogate to his wife. The man alleged that his wife, who had left him shortly after the original order was granted, had concealed her intention of not wishing to
Finally, the Promise of Male Birth Control in a Pill: Compound Makes Mice Reversibly Infertile
Researchers have finally found a compound that may offer the first effective and hormone-free birth control pill for men. The study in the August 17th Cell, a Cell Press publication, shows that the small molecule makes male mice reversibly infertile without putting a damper on their sex drive. When the animals stop taking this new form of birth control, their sperm rebound and they are again able to sire perfectly healthy offspring.
A Pack of Walnuts a Day Keeps the Fertility Specialist Away?
A paper published Aug. 15 in Biology of Reproduction's Papers-in-Press reveals that eating 75 grams of walnuts a day improves the vitality, motility, and morphology of sperm in healthy men aged 21 to 35.
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