Website

http://hdl.handle.net/2429/30962

Author

Britton, Ann Patricia

Place of Publication

[Vancouver, BC?]

Publisher

University of British Columbia

Publication Date

1991

Subject

Faculty of Medicine

Theses

Abstract

A delicate balance of steroid and gonadotrophic hormones is essential for intrafollicular oocyte maturation and successful fertilization and embryonic development. Previous studies have demonstrated that a superovulatory dose of pregnant mare serum gonadotrophin (PMSG) has excessive gonadotrophic activity and alters intrafol1icular steroid hormone levels. In a series of four experiments, the morphology of oocytes and embryos retrieved from immature rats, treated with either a low or high dose of PMSG, and mature, cycling rats was compared to determine whether a superovulatory dose of PMSG has an adverse effect on oocyte maturation and subsequent fertilization and embryonic development in immature rats. Morphological criteria for the assessment of intraoviductal oocyte aging were established in the first experiment.

Language

English

Material Type

Thesis

Call Number

Thesis Shelf

Author

Benner, Patricia

Hooper-Kyriakidis, Patricia

Stannard, Daphne

Place of Publication

[Toronto, ON]

Publisher

W.B. Saunders Company

Publication Date

1999

Physical Description

Softcover: 566 p.

Subject

Nursing. Registered Nurse. RN

Abstract

This book examines how expert critical care nurses use scientific knowledge, professional experience, and a careful attention to each patient's changing condition to provide excellent nursing care. Based on descriptive interviews and observational studies of 205 nurses, it helps readers at all levels develop the critical-thinking, reasoning, judgment, and intervention skills they need to become critical-care nurses.

ISBN

0721675115

Language

English

Material Type

Book

Call Number

REF JC 500 BEN 1999

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