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B Sandler

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[Cutaneous tumors and nodules in the neonatal period].

A review of neonatal cutaneous tumors and nodules is presented, based on a 10-year experience. Pitfalls in diagnosis are especially emphasized. A biopsy should be performed in most instances when there is a clinical doubt.

Dermoid Cyst

Ovarian hyperstimulation and follicular aspiration. Effect on ovulatory function.

The return of normal function of the reproductive axis immediately after hyperstimulation and follicular aspiration is of both physiologic and clinical interest. These cycles may be utilized for the replacement of cryopreserved embryos, for repeated ovarian stimulation or for any alternative treatment that relies upon normal ovulatory function. Thirty-five women were randomly assigned to be monitored in the first (n = 11), second (n = 13) or third (n = 11) menstrual cycle after in vitro fertilization (IVF). Five of 35 patients (14.3%) failed to ovulate, 2 in each of the first and second menstrual cycles and 1 in the third cycle after IVF. Six (20%) ovulatory cycles demonstrated luteal phase deficiencies. The defective luteal phases were evenly distributed between cycles immediately after IVF and those more remote in time from the procedure.

Academic Medical Centers

Poor oocyte quality rather than implantation failure as a cause of age-related decline in female fertility.

Female fertility declines with advancing age. To establish whether this age-related reproductive failure results from diminished oocyte quality or uterine/endometrial inadequacy we investigated ovum donation in 35 infertile women, aged 40 years or older (mean 42.7 [SE 0.3]) who had failed at attempts at conception with their own (self) oocytes. Oocytes were donated by 29 young individuals (mean age 33.4 [0.7]) undergoing in-vitro fertilisation (IVF). 8 (5.3%) pregnancies were achieved in 150 cycles of ovulation induction with self-oocytes and 2 (3.3%) in 60 such cycles by in-vitro fertilisation (IVF), but none attained viability. By contrast in 50 cycles with donated oocytes 28 (56%) pregnancies and 15 (30%) deliveries were realised (p less than 0.005). The rate of implantation per embryo transferred was higher (14.7%) with donated oocytes than that with self-oocytes (3.3%) (p less than 0.01). To further elucidate the contribution of age to reproductive outcome, pregnancy results were compared between the young donors and older recipients. Both donors and recipients shared oocytes from the same induced cohort. Rates for clinical pregnancy and delivery did not differ between donors (33% and 23%) and recipients (40% and 30%). Our data suggest that the age-related decline in female fertility is attributable to oocyte quality and is correctable by ovum donation. The uterus can adequately sustain pregnancies even when reproductive potential is artificially prolonged into the late 40s.

Adult

BPAS and AID.

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Ethics, Medical

The effect of coherin on the basic electrical rhythm of the dog ileum in vivo.

Coherin, a substance isolated from the bovine posterior pituitary gland exists as a complex which is dissociated to yield at least two distinct enteroactive polypeptides, coherin A and B, and a third having little or no activity, coherin C. The effects of intravenous injection of nondissociated coherin (coherin G-25), coherin A, coherin B, vasopressin, and normal saline solution on the BER of the ileal Biebl loop in fasting dogs were investigated. The BER patterns in preinjection and postinjection periods were compared for each substance. The effects on the BER of each substance were compared with that of saline. Monopolar recordings were made from six electrodes 5 mm apart inserted into the ileal musculature of the Biebl loops. Coherin A significantly altered the electroenterograms in two ways. It increased phase locking in the ileal BER of the fasting dog and increased the amount of caudad BER propagation.

Animals

Women and discrimination in academe.

Affirmative action on the campus has led to some changes, but women and minorities have made little headway, especially in terms of being hired. At some institutions, after a year or two of affirmative action, the number and percentage of women has decreased while the number and percentage of men increased. The greatest progress has been in the areas of new legislation, general awareness, and correction of salary inequities. Various laws and court decisions relative to discrimination are discussed, as well as the relationship between women's and minority issues--Sandler, B. Women and discrimination in academe.

Civil Rights

[Partial 7q trisomy].

A 17-month old boy is partially trisomic for 7q22 and 7q31 due to a probable insertion in the paternal chromosome 13. The phenotype of the patient is similar to that of two other patients reported in the literature.

Abnormalities, Multiple