Peer Review #2 of "Histological changes of female reproductive organs subjected to different jumping exercise intensities and honey supplementation in rats (v0.2)"

Background We assessed histopathological changes of ovaries and uterus in female rats subjected to different jumping exercise intensities combined with honey supplementation at one g/kg body weight/day. Methods A total of 72 rats were divided into six groups, 12 rats in each: control (C), 20 and 80 jumps (20E, 80E), honey (H), and 20 and 80 jump with honey (20EH, 80EH). Results The endometrium was significantly thicker in the rats in H, 20EH and 80EH groups compared to C, 20E, and 80E. The myometrium thickness was significantly lower in 80E and significantly higher in 80EH compared to C, respectively. There was significantly higher myometrium thickness in 20EH and 80EH compared to 20E and 80E and H. The number of glands of the uterus in 20E and 80E was significantly lower than C. However, there was a significantly higher number of glands in H, 20EH, and 80EH compared to 20E and 80E. The numbers of uterus vessels were significantly lower in 80E compared to 20E. However, the numbers of vessels were significantly higher in H, 20EH, and 80EH compared to 80E. The number of ovarian haemorregia was significantly lower in 20E, 80E, H, 20EH, and 80EH compared to C. The number of corpora lutea was significantly lower in 80EH, H, 80E, and 20E compared to C. However, the number of corpora lutea was significantly higher in 20EH compared to J20 and H. Conclusion This study suggested that jumping exercises in particularly high-intensity exercise may induce histopathological changes in uterus and ovary in rats, and honey supplementation may ameliorate these effects.

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Ultrastructural aspects of gymnosperms reproductive organs tissues due to their functional condition

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100083060 ◽

1978 ◽

Vol 36 (2) ◽

pp. 440-441

Author(s):

G. M. Kozubov

Keyword(s):

Metabolic Activity ◽

Functional Condition ◽

Reproductive Organs ◽

Considerable Change ◽

Complicated Structure ◽

Tetrad Stage ◽

Ubisch Bodies ◽

Similar Organization ◽

Female Reproductive Organs ◽

High Metabolic Activity

The ultrastructure of reproductive organs of pine, spruce, larch and ginkgo was investigated. It was found that the male reproductive organs possess similar organization. The most considerable change in the ultrastructure of the microsporocytes occur in meiosis. Sporoderm is being laid at the late tetrad stage. The cells of the male gameto-phyte are distinguished according to the metabolic activity of the or- ganells. They are most weakly developed in the spermiogenic cell. Ta-petum of the gymnosperms is of the periplasmodic - secretorial type. The Ubisch bodies which possess similar structure in the types investigated but are specific in details in different species are produced in tapetum.Parietal and subepidermal layers are distinguished for their high metabolic activity and are capable of the autonomous photosynthesis. Female reproductive organs differ more greatly in their struture and have the most complicated structure in primitive groups. On the first stages of their formation the inner cells of nucellus are transformed into the nucellar tapetum in which the structures similar to the Ubisch bodies taking part in the formation of the sporoderm of female gametophyte have been found.

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Medical Metaphors of Women's Bodies: Menstruation and Menopause

International Journal of Health Services ◽

10.2190/x1a6-jaqb-vm9n-ulcy ◽

1988 ◽

Vol 18 (2) ◽

pp. 237-254 ◽

Cited By ~ 19

Author(s):

Emily Martin

Keyword(s):

19Th Century ◽

Reproductive Organs ◽

Central Control ◽

Centralized Control ◽

Medical Texts ◽

Women's Bodies ◽

Waste Products ◽

Bureaucratic Organization ◽

Medical Metaphors ◽

Female Reproductive Organs

Implicit, underlying imagery in medical descriptions of menstruation and menopause is exposed, beginning with 19th century views. Contemporary medical texts and teaching reveal two fundamental assumptions about women's bodies. First, they assume that female reproductive organs are organized as if they form a hierarchical, bureaucratic organization under centralized control. Given this assumption, menopause comes to be described negatively, as a process involving breakdown of central control. Second, they assume that women's bodies are predominantly for the purpose of production of desirable substances, primarily babies. Given this assumption, menstruation comes to be seen negatively, as a process involving failed production, waste products, and debris. Alternative imagery that works from our current understanding of physiology, but avoids denigration of women's bodies, is suggested.

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Effects of Growth Hormone on Female Reproductive Organs

Anatomia Histologia Embryologia ◽

10.1046/j.1439-0264.2001.00336.x ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 30 (5) ◽

pp. 265-271 ◽

Cited By ~ 12

Author(s):

G. G. Kaiser ◽

F. Sinowatz ◽

G. A. Palma

Keyword(s):

Growth Hormone ◽

Reproductive Organs ◽

Female Reproductive Organs

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Ultrastructure of the female reproductive organs (ovary, vitellaria, and Mehlis' gland) of Halipegus eccentricus (Trematoda: Derogenidae)

Canadian Journal of Zoology ◽

10.1139/z86-334 ◽

1986 ◽

Vol 64 (10) ◽

pp. 2203-2212 ◽

Cited By ~ 22

Author(s):

Jon M. Holy ◽

Darwin D. Wittrock

Keyword(s):

Cell Types ◽

Reproductive Organs ◽

Golgi Body ◽

Digenetic Trematode ◽

Secretory Cells ◽

Cortical Granules ◽

Golgi Bodies ◽

Transmission Electron ◽

Vitelline Cells ◽

Female Reproductive Organs

The female reproductive organs (ovary, vitellaria, and Mehlis' gland) of the digenetic trematode Halipegus eccentricus were studied by transmission electron microscopy. Oocytes entered diplotene while in the ovary and produced cortical granules and lipid bodies. Vitelline cells produced large amounts of eggshell protein but no yolk bodies. Two types of Mehlis' gland secretory cells were present, distinguishable by the morphology of their rough endoplasmic reticulum, Golgi bodies, and secretory bodies, and by the persistence of recognizable secretory material within the ootype lumen after exocytosis. In an attempt to standardize the nomenclature regarding the cell types of the Mehlis' gland, a classification that takes into account these four criteria is proposed. Two basic types of Golgi body organization were noted for the cells of the female reproductive system: a stack of flattened cisternae (Mehlis' gland alpha cells) and spherical Golgi bodies with vesicular cisternae (oocytes, vitelline cells, and Mehlis' gland beta cells).

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