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    Assisted Reproductive Techniques and Its Potential Risks
    ZHUANG Guang-lun
    2011, 30 (4):  263-264. 
    Abstract ( 2329 )   PDF (263KB) ( 7205 )  
    Assisted reproductive techniques (粤砸栽)has been developed rapidly for the last two
    decades in China. There has been manya challenge of ART’ s risks, such as OHSS, puncture trauma
    hemorrhage, mutiple pregnancy, IVF laboratory blunder in embryo and sperm manipulation are the common
    complications, as well as the long-term effects from the ICSI or PGD, which are warns for collegues. Beinga
    successful ART, the pregnancy rate alone should not be the only consideration. There are other aspects and
    ideals of dealing with the risks of ART that we should seek. The successful ART should be safe, comfortable
    and cost effective. The issues need to be totally considered.
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    Aging,Infertility and Age-related Fertility Decline in Women
    CHEN Shi-ling;LUO Yan-qun;XIA Rong;WANG Le-le;WU Ya-qin
    2011, 30 (4):  265-271. 
    Abstract ( 2041 )   PDF (328KB) ( 7352 )  
    Main pathophysiological mechanism of the descending ability of conceive and infertility in aging women is insufficient ovarian reserve. So ovarian reserve should firstly be evaluated in those age?鄄advancing women with infertility, and other related examination was also combined to evaluate the ability to conceive. Ovarian reserve was usually evaluated in clinic by FSH and E2 levels at early stage of follicle, as well as clomiphene stimulating test. The antral follicle count(AFC) and inhibin B level were also reported to test ovarian reserve. Advancing age in women is associated with accelerating decline to conceive and increase the risks of miscarriage or of stillbirth or of genetic abnormality in surviving offspring. Treatment options for age?鄄related infertility include controlled the ovarian hyperstimulation with intrauterine insemination(COH/IUI), IVF, and oocyte donation. Since age is a significant factor influencing woman’s ability of conceive, women should be encouraged to have child in their suitable age. Women aged over 35 years with infertility should be promptly diagnosed and positively treated.
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    The Isolation and Immunogenicity of Human Amniotic Epithelial Cells
    PENG Lin;WANG Jian;LU Guang-xiu
    2011, 30 (4):  272-274. 
    Abstract ( 1887 )   PDF (234KB) ( 7185 )  
    Objective: To isolate the human amniotic epithelial cells and to investigate the inhibition of the isolated?-cells to Lymphocyte. Methods: Human amniotic epithelial cells were isolated from amnion by using trypsin/EDTA. Ultrastructures of the isolated cells were observed by using TEM. Immunofluorescence was used for detecting CK18+ cells, and RT?-PCR was performed to detect the gene expression of CDH1, claudin 3 and claudin 4. MTT was used to identify the proliferation of cells after co?-culture for 96 h in vitro. Results: The TEM showed that these isolated cells were pure epithelial cells with microvillus. The isolated?-cells stained positive for CK18 and expressed many epithelial cell-related genes including CDH1, claudin 3 and claudin 4. The OD values increased with the decreasing density of amnion derived cells from 0.074±0.022 to 0.019±0.011. Conclusions:The human amniotic epithelial cells exhibit low immunogenicity.
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    Fertility Preservation in Young Female Cancer Patients
    YAN Jie;QIAO Jie
    2011, 30 (4):  275-278. 
    Abstract ( 1976 )   PDF (218KB) ( 7243 )  
    The improvement of radiotherapy and chemotherapy results in the increases in young cancer survival rates. Unfortunately, many of the treatments are toxic to the ovarian function, finite supply of oocytes and diminish a woman’s chance of future childbearing. Young female cancer survivors have put added emphasis on the need for fertility preservation services. Assisted reproductive techniques(ART) and fertility-sparing surgery are currently available options to increase the likelihood of childbearing after cancer treatment. The currently available options for fertility preservation should be discussed with every patient who is in their reproductive years prior to initiating any treatments. Fertility preservation strategies and protocols should be discussed and performed individually to every cancer patient. As a result, survivors of breast cancer, lymphoma and some ovarian tumors could obtain their child currently. Reproductive clinicians should work closely with oncologists to counsel patients about the treatment on their future fertility and discuss options to preserve potential fertility before starting treatments. Greater emphasis should therefore be placed on fertility preservation during the cancer treatment planning process.
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    Health-related Quality of Life and Psychological Disorders in Women with PCOS
    DU Ai-jun;ZHANG Yun-shan
    2011, 30 (4):  279-281. 
    Abstract ( 2215 )   PDF (226KB) ( 7275 )  
    Polycystic ovary syndrome(PCOS) may have negative effect on health-related quality of life(HRQoL), psychosexuality, body satisfaction and social contacts. PCOS is also a main cause for psychological disorders(depression and anxiety). Clinical treatment of PCOS may improve HRQoL and also have positive effect on psychological disorders, psychosexuality, body satisfaction and social contacts. There are a array of instruments to measure HRQoL, of whihc SF?-36 is most commonly used and PCOSQ is specially made for PCOS.
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    综述
    Assisted Reproductive Technology and Abnormalities in Genomic Imprinting
    ZHANG Dan;XU Gu-feng;HUANG He-feng
    2011, 30 (4):  282-286. 
    Abstract ( 1883 )   PDF (247KB) ( 7273 )  
    Genomic imprinting means the differential expression of allele genes which derivatived from either parents. The relationship between assisted reproductive technology(ART) and abnormalities in genomic imprinting needs further study in the field of fertility safety. ART comprises several steps, including the controlled ovarian stimulation (COS), in vitro fertilization (IVF)/intra?鄄cytoplasmic single sperm injection (ICSI), in vitro maturation (IVM), embryo transfer (ET), etc. It is not clear which step of ART and how to give rise to abnormalities in genomic imprinting. On the basis of infertility, COS, IVM, IVF/ICSI and embryo manipulation could lead to abnormalities in genomic imprinting to varying degrees, from a different perspective.
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    Luteotropic Hormone and Growth and Development of Follicle
    HE Li-dan;QU Jun-ying
    2011, 30 (4):  287-290. 
    Abstract ( 2745 )   PDF (236KB) ( 7309 )  
    Luteotropic hormone is one of gonadotropins, synthesised and secreted by anterior pituitary gland under the stimulation of gonadotropin?-releasing hormone from hypothalamus. It plays important roles in regulation of follicular growth and development, including activation of primordial follicle, oocyte development, selection of advantageous follicle, and induced ovulation. LH is also closely related to the ovulation obstacles.
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    Comment on Empty Follicle Syndrome:A Controversial Issue
    CHEN Yuan;QIAO Jie
    2011, 30 (4):  291-292. 
    Abstract ( 2244 )   PDF (190KB) ( 7219 )  
    Empty follicle syndrome(EFS), which classified as “genuine” of “false”, is a rare complication of in vitro fertilization(IVF) treatment, leading to cycle cancellation. The underlying mechanism of the EFS remains hypothetical, such as low human chorionic gonadotropin(hCG) bioavailability, ovarian dysfunction and genetic factors. The risk of recurrence is higher as the age of the patients increases. Consequently, the diagnosis of EFS is retrospective while its treatment is difficult. Some false EFS patients could be rescued by repeating the hCG injection on the day of unsuccessful oocyte retrieval. The occurrence of genuine EFS will indicate poor IVF success in subsequent IVF cycles.
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    Application of Fluorescent In Situ Hybridization in Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis
    LI Xiao-ye;BAI Xiao-hong
    2011, 30 (4):  293-297. 
    Abstract ( 1926 )   PDF (288KB) ( 7304 )  
    As development of the assisted reproductive technique(ART), preimplantation genetic diagnosis(PGD) had been made great progress. The emergenced application of fluorescent in situ hybridization(FISH) in clinical raised implantation rate and clinical gestation rate consumedly in IVF, and lowed the miscarry rate. Now, FISH is widely used in aneuploidy screening, chromosome construction/structure abnormality and sex?鄄linked genetic diseases. But, the long?鄄term safety of PGD is still under controversy. In this review, we introduced application of FISH in the field of PGD.
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    Monozygotic Twinning in Assisted Reproductive Technology
    GAO Rui-hua;CHEN Lei-ning;QUAN Song
    2011, 30 (4):  298-301. 
    Abstract ( 1799 )   PDF (220KB) ( 7235 )  
    The incidence of monozygotic twinning raised after the assisted reproductive technology(ART) was used for infertility treatment. Although the detailed mechanism is not well?-known, the increased monozygotic twinning rate after ART may be related with ovarian stimulation, injury of zona pellucida, changes in culture media and multiple embryos transfer. Twin?-twin transfusion syndrome is the most serious complication, so it is important for monozygotic twinning to early diagnosis and early treatment. In recent years, doctors of reproductive medicine and obstetricians have paied more attention to monozygotic twinning. We reviewed the factors of the raised incidence of monozygotic twinning after ART, as well as diagnosis and prognosis of monozygotic twinning.
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    Drugs of the Controlled Ovarian Stimulation and Fetal Safety
    NI Hao;QUAN Song
    2011, 30 (4):  302-304. 
    Abstract ( 1811 )   PDF (254KB) ( 7161 )  
    It is very important to evaluate the fetal safety of drugs of the controlled ovarian stimulation (COS) in infertility treatment. The available data suggested that COS drugs did not increase the rate of birth defects. There was not evidence to show that COS drugs had obvious teratogenic effects. In fact, infertility itself may be one of the risk factors for congenital malformation. In this review, we briefly introduced COS drugs, their teratogenic effects on offsprings, as well as malformation types.
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    Mental Health of Offsprings After Assisted Reproductive Technology
    SHEN Xiu-zhen;ZHU Yi-min
    2011, 30 (4):  305-308. 
    Abstract ( 2397 )   PDF (220KB) ( 7184 )  
    Assisted reproductive technologies(ART) have been developed more than thirty years, and there are more than four million babies born after ART in the world. Mental health of ART offsprings has been one of focus of fertility experts in recent years. The most findings indicated that mental health of ART offsprings is reassuring and parent-child relationship is good overall, although ART children could have more behavior problems compared to those spontaneously conceived(SC) during child and adolescent. The results of follow-up study on mental health of ART offsprings were not consistent. It is necessary to have the large examples, random, matched studies, especially more studies on the ART adulthood offspring. So, It is a long?-term and urgent task to study enduringly ART offsprings and follow-up.
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    Applications of Semen Autopreservation in Reproductive Insurance
    ZHANG Jun-rong;YAO Kang-shou
    2011, 30 (4):  309-313. 
    Abstract ( 2384 )   PDF (299KB) ( 7272 )  
    With the development of human assisted reproductive technology(ART), the reproductive insurance is of a focus. Because of problems in oocyte cryopreservation, the reproductive insurance is primarily sperm autopreservation at present. Sperm could be injured during cryopreservation to some extent, and injury mechanisms were various. Sperm motility and vitality were proksim among those different kinds of freezing methods. There are several sources of sperm in semen autopreservation, but the obtaining ejaculate by masturbation is the first choice. Semen autopreservation can be widely used, all of male patients at risk of infertility because of their cancer treatment should be offered this technique. There are some problems in semen autopreservation at present.
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    Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis for Single Gene Defects
    KONG De-wen
    2011, 30 (4):  314-318. 
    Abstract ( 2727 )   PDF (403KB) ( 7238 )  
    Because in overwhelming majority of single gene defects(SGD) the gene mutations are heterozygous, it is necessary for most pre-implantation genetic diagnosis(PGD) of SGD(SGD-PGD) to design individually. Thus, the designing becomes very important one of the steps in SGD-PGD. Since the heredity pattern(autosomal dominant and recessive, X-linked dominant and recessive) and the mutation type(point mutation, large or small fragment insertion and deletion, repeat expansion and so on) are different in cases, we should have the corresponding designing tactics and strategy. Through different designing examples, the author will introduce to readers different design tactics and strategies. Nowadays the basic technique link of SGD-PGD is still the amplification for target DNA fragment from single cells(blastomeres) with DNA polymerase chain reaction(PCR), and after then to diagnose the obtained target fragment. The most important step of designing is design of primers that will be used in PCR. At same times the designing should also include to set special PCR protocol for single cell, design restriction enzyme cut site(s)[because for most point mutations, restriction fragment length polymorphism(RFLP) method is commonly used for diagnosis], make the analysis pre-estimate of diagnosis result, and determine which primer of the two in the last round of PCR should be fluorescence?-labelled. Any success SGD-PGD requires an authority core of leadership to organize, coordinate, manage and support the whole team, which is also the precondition to serve SGD?-PGD in groups. Moreover, only when there is close coordination among the inheritance epidemiology workers, the paediatric departments of various hospitals, some special disease research institutes and the groups of molecular biology gene diagnosis, SGD?-PGD can be served for various SGDs comprehensively.
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    综述
    Notch Signaling and the Invasiveness of Trophoblasts
    QIAN Jin-feng;HUANG Zi-rong
    2011, 30 (4):  326-328. 
    Abstract ( 1967 )   PDF (202KB) ( 7233 )  
    Notch signaling is an evolutionally conserved system, which generally expressed in invertebrates and vertebrates to control cell fates, including human tissues. NOTCH receptor is a member of transmenbrane receptor family. Notch pathway regulates cell differentiation, proliferation, apoptosis, as well as invasiveness and metastasis of malignant cells. It plays an important role in embryogenesis, angiogenesis and the physical accommodation of placental vessels. This review summarized the current knowledge of Notch signaling pathway enhancing the invasiveness of trophoblasts and angiogenesis of placenta.
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    Role of CFTR in Reproductive System and Its Mechanism
    YU Jian-min;NI Ya
    2011, 30 (4):  329-333. 
    Abstract ( 2295 )   PDF (295KB) ( 7235 )  
    The cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator(CFTR), expressed in epithelial cells of a wide variety of tissues, is a cAMP-dependent chloride channel. It mediated secretion and transportion of anions and water at epithelial cells. Mutations in the gene encoding CFTR cause cystic fribrosis, with congenital absence of the vas deferens and spermatogenesis failure in male patients and reduced fertility in female patients. CFTR is expressed in a wide variety of epithelial cells in male and female reproductive tracts with an important role in reproductive health. In this paper, we discussed the physiological role of CFTR in reproduction, such as spermatogenesis, sperm capacitation, implantation and early embryo development.
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    Leptin in Human Reproduction
    GONG San;HAO Tian-yu;ZHANG Shu-fen
    2011, 30 (4):  334-337. 
    Abstract ( 2240 )   PDF (224KB) ( 7219 )  
    Leptin, a novel molecule, is a protein hormone produced by the obesity gene. This protein and its receptor show that they play an important role in many biological action. Recent study found that leptin as a signal effects on the adequacy of nutritional status and reproductive function are thought to be mediated centrally via neurotransmitters. Leptin concentration is associated with hypothalam?-pituitary-gonad axis, follicular development, implantation, polycystic ovary syndrome and male infertility. Study leptin in the function of reproductive system will benefit to reveal the regulation of clinical infertility and provide the new rapeutic strategy for human assisted reproductive technology.
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    Effect of Domestic Violence on Women Reproductive Health
    SUN Feng;TU Xiao-wen
    2011, 30 (4):  338-341. 
    Abstract ( 1942 )   PDF (242KB) ( 7188 )  
    Domestic violence against women has increasingly become an important public health and social problem. Violence against women exists in both developed countries and developing countries. Risk factors of domestic violence include victim factors, perpetrator factors and cultural factors. Domestic violence grievously affects women reproductive health. It makes women more susceptible to a variety of gynecological diseases and reproductive tract infections(RTIs), unwanted pregnancy, miscarriage, pregnancy complications, even so much as death. It is not only a domestic problem, but also a social problem. Its prevention is now a long?-term, comprehensive and systemic project, which requires a multi-angle and multi-sectoral collaboration. In this paper, we reviewed the prevalence of domestic violence against women and influencing factors, and its effect on women reproductive health.
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