Effects of aqueous extract from Asparagus officinalis L. roots on hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis hormone levels and the number of ovarian follicles in adult rats.

Background: Asparagus is a plant with high nutritional, pharmaceutical, and industrial values.

Objective: The present study aimed to evaluate the effect of aqueous extract of asparagus roots on the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis hormones and oogenesis in female rats.

Materials And Methods: In this experimental study, 40 adult female Wistar rats were divided into five groups, which consist 8 rats.

Influences of spherical phantom heterogeneities on dosimetric charactristics of miniature electronic brachytherapy X-ray sources: Monte Carlo study.

Dose calculations in current brachytherapy treatment planning systems (TPS) are commonly based on TG-43U1 formalism. These TPS are obtained by superposition principle of single-source dosimetric parameters in liquid water, neglecting the effects of tissue heterogeneity. In this work, the sensitivity of the TG-43U1 based radial dose function (g(r)) of Miniature Electronic Brachytherapy X-ray Sources (MEBXS) to bone-heterogeneity was examined.