Showing posts with label volatile organic compounds. Show all posts
Showing posts with label volatile organic compounds. Show all posts

Wednesday, 18 December 2024

Importance of Air Filtration System Replacement to Improve the Embryo Quality in Assisted Reproduction Laboratory | Chapter 3 | New Visions in Medicine and Medical Science Vol. 9

 

Infertility is a common disease, which drives several couples to seek treatment with assisted reproduction techniques. In vitro fertilization plays a significant role in combatting infertility. However, many factors contribute to the efficiency of assisted reproductive techniques, such as the laboratory environment and air quality. Poor air quality in the IVF laboratory is a known risk factor in the culture of gametes and human embryos. Improving infrastructural conditions of the in vitro fertilization laboratory, such as the air quality, has profound positive effects on embryo culture. Poor environmental conditions reduce the rate of embryo formation and, therefore, of pregnancy. This review article presents important publications regarding the impact of air quality in human reproduction laboratories on embryo quality, pregnancy success, and live births. The studies demonstrate that replacing the air filtration system improves significantly the environmental air quality, and, consequently, improves laboratory parameters, such as the fertilization rate, the number of blastocysts, the embryo implantation rate, and the number of live births. On the other hand, improving air quality decreases the number of abortions. Therefore, environmental parameters that improve embryo quality and increase healthy childbirth rates must be the main targets for assisted reproduction laboratory quality control. More controlled studies on air quality should be performed with the aim of investigating how particulate filtration interferes with IVF results and provides an effective balance of costs and benefits of replacing the air filtration system in the context of human-assisted reproduction.

 

Author(s) Details:-

 

Karine Queiroz Poletto
Faculty of Medicine, Centro Universitário UNIRG, Gurupi, TO, Brazil.

 

Yanna Andressa Ramos de Lima
Center for Human Reproduction, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, GO, Brazil.

 

Mário Silva Approbato
Center for Human Reproduction, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, GO, Brazil.

 

Please see the link here:-  https://doi.org/10.9734/bpi/nvmms/v9/3789G

Thursday, 20 July 2023

Volatile Organic Compound Emission from Human Skin in Health and Disease | Chapter 11 | Current Progress in Medicine and Medical Research Vol. 2

 The aim concerning this chapter search out examine the serviceableness of volatile natural compound (VOC) emissions came from the human skin in the context of human strength and disease. The reasoning of volatile basic compounds (VOCs) emitted from the human material can provide personalised news about underlying metabolic pathophysiological processes completely non- invasively. Despite the skin being the second largest subscriber to the production of VOCs, it is an underexplored arm of the overall human volatolome and consequently the part of human skin to VOC production and the exact range to which skin VOCs maybe signatures of fitness and disease is obscure.This chapter investigate the role of skin VOCs in the more extensive scientific and dispassionate context of the whole human volatolome. First, the literature countryside of the human volatolome and its dispassionate applications is characterized. The focus of this unit then shifts to the human skin volatolome. Key concerning details processes and challenges in skin VOC capture and analysis are thought-out. This is followed by a inclusive summary and literature judgment of research on skin VOCs in health and affliction with a singular perspective on illuminating the biological inceptions of skin VOCs aiming to link the phenotype to the fundamental disease process.Finally, the phase concludes by debating the current limitations of skin VOC research and desires future research directions in this place novel scientific field that can strengthen the dispassionate translational value of skin VOCs.

Author(s) Details:

Anuja T. Mitra,

Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington, London, W21NY, United Kingdom.

Alexandra Razumovskaya-Hough,

Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington, London, W21NY, United Kingdom.

George B. Hanna,

Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington, London, W21NY, United Kingdom.

Please see the link here: https://stm.bookpi.org/CPMMR-V2/article/view/11291

Thursday, 24 November 2022

Current Advances in Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences Vol. 8| Chapter 6 | Current Advances in Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences Vol. 8

 Indoor air characteristic is an essential component of sustainable housing. To build sustainable backgrounds, health dangers to a degree mould and other allergens, explosion pollutants, volatile basic compounds, radon, lead, and asbestos must be prevented. Ways of doing so include the use of water-governed building foundations, ground drainage, able ventilation, informed collection of equipment for space adapting and water heating, material selections, and sub-slab the act of providing or changing the air. Lead and asbestos are issues in the rehabilitation of earlier homes, and they are dealt with utilizing well-established best practises. The aim of this study is to examine indoor environmental poisons, their effects on human fitness, and ways to avoid and weaken exposure. Materials used for this purpose contain books, journal publications, and WWW resources.  The occupancy of asthma triggers in houses has enhance a more important indoor material concern, which will be debated in greater detail.

Author(s) Details:

Joseph Laquatra,
Department of Human Centered Design, Cornell University, USA.

Please see the link here: https://stm.bookpi.org/CAGEES-V8/article/view/8686