Thesis (doctoral)--Lund University, 1994. / Added t.p. with thesis statement inserted.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1962. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Canterbury, 2006. / Typescript (photocopy). Includes bibliographical references. Also available via the World Wide Web.

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Thesis (MTech (Biomedical Technology))--Cape Technikon,1997. / The aims of this study were to measure: 1. Myometrial cells of menopausal uteri to establish whether they atrophy after the menopause. 2. Myometrial cells at different phases of the menstrual cycle to investigate the influences of oestrogen and progesterone during the cycle. 3. Myometrial cells in the fundus and lower uterine segment to establish whether they differ in size. 4. Myometrial cells of pregnant uteri to investigate the effect of the hormonal status of pregnant women on the size of myometrial cells. 5. Neoplastic cells of leiomyomas of the uterus to investigate whether these benign tumours behave in the same manner as myometrium or, because they are neoplastic, they react differently. A preliminary investigation was undertaken to establish the optimal methodology for this study to measure myometrial and leiomyoma nuclei in the uterus. The aims of this preliminary investigation were: 1. To test the reproducibility of measurements of myometrial and leiomyoma nuclei in transverse and cross section. 2. To test five histological staining methods to ascertain the best method for a morphometric study on uterine cells. 3. To find the minimum sample size of nuclei per section of myometrium or leiomyoma in order to yield statistically significant results. This preliminary study found that the Haematoxylin and Eosin stain gave the most statistically reproducible measurements. Subjective assessment of the five staining methods also found Haematoxylin and Eosin to be optimal. It was also found during the preliminary study that measuring the myometrial nuclei in cross rather than transverse section gave the most statistically reproducible measurements. It was also found that it was best to use an axial ratio criterion of 0,9 when measuring cross-sectioned myometrial nuclei. The optimum sample size per section was also investigated and it was found that measuring 100 nuclei was optimal. It was found that in the uteri used in this study there was no statistically significant decrease in nuclear size after the menopause. It was also found that there was no statistically significant difference in nuclear size during the different phases of the menstrual cycle. There was also no notable difference in nuclear size between nuclei in the fundus and lower segment of the uteri in this study. It was found that there was a significant increase in the size of nuclei in leiomyomas compared to the normal myometrial nuclei from the same patient. The myometrial nuclei from pregnant uteri were also significantly larger than those from non-gravid uteri.

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Pharmacologic and chromatographic methods were employed to identify the neurohypophysial peptides present in, two species of cyslostomes, the western brook lamprey, Lampetra richardsoni, and the Pacific hagfish, Polistotrema stoutii. The evidence obtained indicated the presence of low amounts of 8-arginine -oxytocin or arginine vasotocin in both animals. No evidence was provided to suggest the existence of a second biologically active posterior pituitary principle in either species, and with the lamprey, it appeared unlikely that more than one percent of the total activity extracted from the neurohypophysial tissues could have been due to a second peptide without being detected. The results of the study thus supported previous claims that cyclo-stomes were unique amoung vertebrates in the possession of a single active neurohypophysial principle. The evolutionary significance of this feature of lamprey and hagfish is discussed, as well as the possibility of the existence, in the pituitary of lower vertebrates, of "intermediate" neurohypophysial peptides with low biological activity. Pharmacologic and chromatographic investigations of midbrain and hind-brain "control" material from the western brook lamprey suggested that small amounts of arginine vasotocin may have been present in these tissues. The possible explanations for this extra-hypothalamic location of a neurohypophysial peptide are discussed, in light of similar findings in other vertebrates. Subsequent to the demonstration of the presence of arginine vasotocin in Lampetra richardsoni, the levels of the peptide were studied in animals of various ages and in larvae kept under various photoperiods. Determinations of the amounts of AVT present in the lamprey during its life history were made in an attempt to corroborate published histological observations which suggested that in Lampetra planeri a marked depletion of the principle occurred at metamorphosis. Although the interpretation of results was complicated by the presence of substantial amounts of contaminating substances in the pituitary extracts, it appeared unlikely that the levels of AVT were drastically reduced at transformation in L. richardsoni. Rather, the data indicated that the amounts of the peptide, as well as the quantities of other active substances in both pituitary and hindbrain tissues, were augmented when larvae transformed into adults. This increase in rat uterus activity extracted from the tissues was correlated with an increase in dry weight of the brain, and it appeared likely that the two occurrences were causally linked. No significant deviations were noted in the rat uterus activity extracted from groups of larval lamprey kept under different photoperiods. The variations that occurred amoung the neurohypophysial tissues were paralleled by differences amoung the control tissues; this suggested that photoperiod had effects on other biologically active subatances in the central nervous system besides AVT. / Science, Faculty of / Zoology, Department of / Graduate