2656 results about "Fertility" patented technology

A method and system for monitoring the condition of livestock comprises a plurality of sensors (115, 103, 113, 111, 107, 105) for sensing a plurality of different behavioural parameters of an animal. The sensed data is transmitted by a unit (115), wirelessly, t a central processor (119) and a plurality of status conditions of the animal is determined on the basis of the transmitted, sensed data such as the onset of parturition, fertility status and other health status conditions. The unit (115) may be permanently worn by the animal and may keep an electronic record of the status conditions of the animal.

Methods are provided for treating a subject for a fertility condition. In accordance with the subject methods, at least a portion of a subject's autonomic nervous system is modulated to increase the sympathetic activity / parasympathetic activity ratio in a manner that is effective to treat the subject for the condition. Embodiments of the subject invention include modulating a subject's autonomic nervous system using electrical energy and / or one or more pharmacological agents. The subject methods find use in the treatment of a variety of different fertility conditions. Also provided are kits for use in practicing the subject methods.

A method is provided for the improvement of implantation rates and / or pregnancy rates in a female mammal, comprising administering to a female mammal in whom pregnancy is desired an effective amount of (a) a nitric oxide synthase substrate, a nitric oxide donor, or both, optionally in combination with (b) a progestin, and, (c) optionally, in further combination with an estrogen. A method is also provided for fertility control for a female mammal, comprising administering to a female mammal in whom pregnancy is not desired and at risk for becoming pregnant an effective amount of nitric oxide synthase inhibitor in combination with an antiprogestin. Pharmaceutical compositions are also provided.

Methods of monitoring the ovulation cycle of an animal by detecting specific analytes in body fluids, computer program products, devices, data processing systems, and kits for monitoring the ovulation cycle and determining the fertility of female mammals.

The invention relates to a breeding method for prolongation of rice fertility stage, and the breeding method comprises the following steps: selecting a target fragment in a rice fertility stage determining gene Ehd3 exon region and constructing a plant CRISPR / Cas9 targeting recombinant vector, introducing into rice cells for regeneration to sprout; using an expression frame in the vector to realize shearing of Ehd3 exon region DNA in the rice cells so as to cause self healing of the rice cells; sequencing regeneration strain genome target fragments to obtain an afunction-mutational strain carrying two equipotential Ehd3 genes, and confirming the prolongation of the regeneration plant fertility stage by phenotypic identification. Experiments show that the method can quickly obtain fertility stage prolonged rice materials.

A fertility monitoring apparatus measures body temperature and saliva or cervical fluid resistivity. The clinical device includes a sensor, processor and transmitter to wirelessly deliver information to a computerized device such as a smart phone, tablet, or laptop for further analysis and display. The computerized device is programmed with software to receive, analyze, display, and / or transmit the raw or processed information. The programmed computerized device computes fertility information of the user. A central fertility platform includes a programmed computing device, and a database of fertility information from multiple users. Input from user accounts are fed into the platform and stored in the database. Exemplary inputs include the user's age, cycle length, diagnosis of fertility, reproductive health information. The platform both provides feedback to the user and learns from the data collected to improve upon or self-modify calculations using machine learning, artificial intelligence, and data mining approaches.

The invention relates to lightweight ecological nutrient soil for roof greening and a method for preparing the lightweight ecological nutrient soil. The nutrient soil is made of dry basis raw materials including 10-20% of biogas residues, 5-15% of slag, 10-20% of loess, 25-35% of rice hulls, 15-25% of mushroom residues and 15-30% of pine needle soil, and living earthworms accounting for 0.2-1% of the total mass of the dry basis raw materials. The nutrient soil is light in load, low in volume weight, free from hardening, resistant to trampling, fine in moisture and fertility preserving performance, pollution-free, extensive in source of raw materials, low in cost, simple in production process and easy to popularize.

The present invention provides food bars for consumption by pregnant women, lactating women or women of childbearing potential that are attempting to become pregnant containing one or more vitamins and / or minerals, and one or more anti-constipation and regularity-maintaining agents, methods for preparing these food bars, and methods for supplementing the dietary requirements of pregnant women, lactating women or women of childbearing potential that are attempting to become pregnant. The food bars of the invention generally comprise one or more vitamins and minerals recommended for consumption by pregnant women, lactating women or women of childbearing potential that are attempting to become pregnant in an amount that is effective for enhancing the nutrition of pregnant women, lactating women or women of childbearing potential that are attempting to become pregnant, and that is not harmful to developing fetuses or breast-feeding babies, one or more anti-constipation and regularity maintaining agents in an amount that is effective for reducing or eliminating constipation, and that is not harmful to developing fetuses or breast-feeding babies, from about 0 to about 99 weight percent of carbohydrates, from about 0 to about 80 weight percent of proteins, and from about 0 to about 60 weight percent of fats.

A system and method for determining a user's physical condition such as a hormonal level are provided. The system includes a portable or wearable device that measures multiple biomarkers, such as basal body temperature, saliva salinity, saliva pH, sweat ions, skin thickness, vitamin levels or breath carbon dioxide. The system determines the physical condition, such as the fertility level of the user based on comparing the measured biomarkers with data models. The determined physical condition, such as the fertility level, is communicated to allow the user to know their status.

The present invention provides food bars for consumption by pregnant women, lactating women or women of childbearing potential that are attempting to become pregnant containing one or more vitamins and / or minerals, and one or more anti-constipation and regularity-maintaining agents, methods for preparing these food bars, and methods for supplementing the dietary requirements of pregnant women, lactating women or women of childbearing potential that are attempting to become pregnant. The food bars of the invention generally comprise one or more vitamins and minerals recommended for consumption by pregnant women, lactating women or women of childbearing potential that are attempting to become pregnant in an amount that is effective for enhancing the nutrition of pregnant women, lactating women or women of childbearing potential that are attempting to become pregnant, and that is not harmful to developing fetuses or breast-feeding babies, one or more anti-constipation and regularity-maintaining agents in an amount that is effective for reducing or eliminating constipation, and that is not harmful to developing fetuses or breast-feeding babies, from about 0 to about 99 weight percent of carbohydrates, from about 0 to about 80 weight percent of proteins, and from about 0 to about 60 weight percent of fats.

The invention discloses a maca, ginseng and medlar composition and an application thereof. The composition is prepared by mixing the following components in percentage by weight: 30-85% of maca, 10-40% of ginseng and 5-30% of medlar. The composition is added with edible accessory and prepared into tablets, hard capsules, granules, soft capsule, medicinal liquor, oral liquid and beverage. According to the composition disclosed by the invention, the maca, ginseng and medlar are matched and combined according to the functional characteristics thereof; the ginseng has the effects of nourishing and strengthening and tonifying middle and replenishing qi, the maca has the effects of improving sexual function, reducing benign prostatic hyperplasia and improving the fertility, and the medlar has the effects of preventing consumptive disease, essence deficiency, impotence, spermatorrhea and the like; and the three complement one another and realize a synergistic effect in improving the sexual function, reducing benign prostatic hyperplasia and improving the fertility.

A method is provided for the improvement of implantation rates and / or pregnancy rates in a female mammal, comprising administering to a female mammal in whom pregnancy is desired an effective amount of (a) a nitric oxide synthase substrate, a nitric oxide donor, or both, optionally in combination with (b) a progestin, and, (c) optionally, in further combination with an estrogen. A method is also provided for fertility control for a female mammal, comprising administering to a female mammal in whom pregnancy is not desired and at risk for becoming pregnant an effective amount of nitric oxide synthase inhibitor in combination with an antiprogestin. Pharmaceutical compositions are also provided.

A hyperspectral method for detecting the present condition of an avian egg is disclosed in which a neural network algorithm is used to compare the spectrum of a test egg against a spectral library. The method can detect fertility with greater than 90% reliability on the day of laying and the gender of the chick with greater than 75% reliability on the 12th day after laying.

The invention discloses an organic fertilizer fermented by chicken manure and a production method of the organic fertilizer, which belong to the technical field of culture waste treatment and biological fertilizer manufacture. According to the invention, the organic fertilizer is prepared and produced by the steps of aerobic curing and anaerobic fermentation, so that the problems of pollution and root burning caused by the chicken manure directly applied to fields are solved, and the innocent treatment and resource utilization of the chicken manure and padding are realized. The final product mainly comprise beneficial bacteria and metabolites of the beneficial bacteria, which have the characteristics that the fertility is durable, the macroecology of the soil can be improved to inhibit pest and disease damage, the soil structure can be improved to improve breathability and the development of the root systems of plants can be enhanced. The purpose of the aerobic curing is to inhibit the growth of infectious microbes, control metabolism direction, kill pathogenic microorganisms, adult parasite, parasite eggs and thermolabile infectious microbes by biological heat and provide a matrix for anaerobic fermentation by decomposing, transforming and synthesizing the microorganisms into thallus ingredients and small molecular substances; and the purpose of the anaerobic fermentation is to augment the beneficial bacteria and generate the metabolites such as organic acid.

A method of genotyping women experiencing infertility for non-physical reasons in order to identify the presence of the rs4238001 and / or rs10846744 mutation of the SCARB1 gene and, upon identifying the presence of one or both genetic mutations, administering a tailored therapeutic regimen to restore fertility by either one or a combination of 1) mediating the flux of cholesterol resulting from the mutation by therapeutic use of the cholesterol medication probucol and / or other cholesterol altering medications, and / or 2) amplifying the presence of hormone progesterone by therapeutic use of progestational and progestin medications.

Disclosed are methods for identification of agents that modulate cell attachment, cell migration and cell viability. Cancer and primary cells adhered to a matrix are treated with agent(s) that modulate ActRII signaling and cell adhesion. Agents are tested that modulate cell adhesion, detachment, invasion and viability. Agents that modulate the expression, phosphorylation, function and translocation of ActRII signaling pathway members also can predict agents that modulate cell adhesion, detachment, invasion and viability. The methods have utility in identifying agents that prevent cancer cell metastasis, wound dehiscence, aortic dissection and aid retina attachment and skin replacement and fertility.

Following exposure to an external light source, determining: 1) the fertility of an avian egg by measuring the photon intensity (photons per second) of the egg's biophoton and luminescence; and 2) the gender of an avian egg by measuring the photon spectrum of the egg's biophoton emission and luminescence. The external light source is either an incandescent, fluorescent, LED, (pulsed or continuous wave) monochromatic or dichromatic laser light source. The detector of the photon intensity is either a low light sensing photomultiplier tube (PMT), silicon based photon counting sensor, or Geiger-mode avalanche photodiode detector. The detector of the photon spectrum is a spectrometer. Following exposure to the referenced light sources, fertile avian eggs will exhibit a higher intensity of photons than that of unfertilized avian eggs, and avian eggs of the female gender will emit a different spectrum of photons than will avian eggs of the male gender.

The present invention provides devices having an elongated member, a stop slidably engaged with the member and preferably a measuring scale to determine dimensions of female reproductive organs. Preferably, the device is adapted to determine the length of the cervix in the fornix vaginae, which is used in the disclosed methods to predict the risk of preterm labor, risk of miscarriage, ease or difficulty of inducing labor, and fertility of an individual. Additional embodiments of the device determine dimensions of the fornix vaginae and dilation of the cervix uteri.

The present invention includes nuclear fertility restorer genes, proteins encoded by those genes and transgenic plants and plant cells containing those genes. More particularly, the nuclear fertility restorer genes can be used to restore fertility in cytoplasmic male-sterile plants such as Brassica napus. Preferably, the nuclear fertility restorer genes are used with the Ogura (ogu) CMS system in Brassica napus.

The invention discloses a vegetable nursering substrate, which is characterized by the following: allocating raw material with fermented cattle manure, peat, vermiculite, pearlite and composite fertilizer of nitrogen, phosphor and potassium according to certain proportion; avoiding environmental pollution; saving manufacturing cost; reducing cost effectively; improving fertility by over 50%.

The invention discloses a method for planting organic passion fruit trees. The method includes the steps of variety selection, site selection, soil preparation, soil pH adjustment, establishment of a passion fruit tree foundation, field planting, reshaping and pruning, field management, blossoming, fruit yielding and the like. According to the method, organic fertilizer and a low-toxicity prevention method are adopted in fertilization and pest control, so that the pulp of produced passion fruits is full of yellow fruit juice, the content of sugar is high, the color is bright, the yield reaches up to 2 tons per mu each year, pollution is avoided, and five seasons of fruits can be harvested each year. The successful planting of the organic passion fruit trees provides a theoretical and practical basis for creating incomes of local farmers. According to the method, a leeward apricus flat ground is selected, and the place where a good source of water is obtained, the soil layer is thick, fertility of the soil is above the average and transportation is convenient is used as a planting foundation, so that it is guaranteed that the passion fruit trees can grow in a good environment, the roots of nursery-grown plants are planted in furrows and exposed to the sun, hence, the roots can better absorb sunshine, and fertilization and weeding are further facilitated.

Provided are methods of delivering decision support systems (DSSs) to healthcare providers, patients, and / or consumers with or without integrated electronic health records (EHRs) for reproductive care and other health conditions. The DSS platforms of the present invention include predication models based upon de-identified data sets and customized algorithms that may be clinic specific, region specific, and / or population specific. The DSS platforms of the present invention also include methods of providing third party payments of an individual's medical bills, wherein the third party is not capable of viewing the personal health identifiers of the individual.

A method and device are provided for counting cells in a sample of living tissue, such as an embryo. The method involves obtaining a microscopic image of the unstained tissue that reveals cell boundaries, such as a differential interference contrast (DIC) image, and an optical quadrature microscopy (OQM) image which is used to prepare an image of optical path length deviation (OPD) across the cell cluster. The boundaries of individual cells in the cell cluster are modeled as ellipses and used, together with the maximum optical path length deviation of a cell, to calculate ellipsoidal model cells that are subtracted from the OPD image. The process is repeated until the OPD image is depleted of phase signal attributable to cells of the cell cluster, and the cell count is obtained from the number of cells subtracted. The method is capable of accurately and non-invasively counting the number of cells in a living embryo at the 2-30 cell stage, and can be employed to assess the developmental stage and health of human embryos for fertility treatments.

The present invention provides a method for retarding unhealthy manifestations brought by ageing of human beings (in particular, but not limited to the reduction of sexual activity and fertility, climax, changes in glucose tolerance, reduction of cognitive and mnestic functions, reduction of stress resistance, development of organ and tissue sclerosis). According to the invention this task is solved by administration into the blood circulation of an agent which inactivates extracellular blood plasma DNA.

The invention discloses a high-efficiency multi-bacterial activity biogas residue biofertilizer and a preparation method thereof, and relates to the field of farm fertilizers. The biofertilizer is prepared by mixing and granulating 44 to 54 weight parts of biogas residue, 10 to 15 weight parts of potassium chloride, 10 to 15 weight parts of humic acid, 0.4 to 0.6 part of secondary and micro-element, 0.4 to 0.6 weight part of microbe, 5 to 10 weight parts of urea, 10 to 15 weight parts of monoammonium phosphate and 5 to 10 weight parts of ammonium chloride. The high-efficiency multi-bacterial activity biogas residue biofertilizer has the characteristics of better multiple bacteria co-existing environment, stronger bioactivity, higher fertilizer efficiency, complete organic matters, effective micropopulations and chemical nutrients, controlled-release effect and the like, can be used as a fertilizer for rice, also can be used as a fertilizer for Upland food crops, vegetables, melons and fruits and fruit trees, and can improve the fertility of land and the utilization rate of the fertilizer, improve the quality of agricultural products, enhance plant diseases and insect pest resistance and drought resistance, purify and repair soil and the like after being applied.

The invention discloses a microorganism compound microbial inoculum, the strains of which comprise bacillus, soil actinomycetes, microzyme, mildew and photosynthetic bacteria. By using the microbial inoculum for straw fermentation, a result indicates that the microbial inoculum can make straws quickly decay and transfer to organic fertilizer required for the growth of plants, thereby the content of soil humus is increased, and the content of microorganism and trace elements in soil is improved. The physicochemical property of soil is improved, and the capability of water and fertility preserving of soil is increased. The soil permeability can also be improved so as to inhibit the happening of crop pests, and the output and quality of products can be improved. The microbial inoculum has the advantages of convenient use, low cost and obvious effect.

This invention provides novel substituted tricyclic pyridyl carboxamides which act as oxytocin receptor competitive antagonists, as well as methods of their manufacture, pharmaceutical compositions and methods of their use in treatment, inhibition, suppression or prevention of preterm labor, dysmenorrhea, endometritis, suppression of labor at term prior to caesarean delivery, and to facilitate antinatal transport to a medical facility. These compounds are also useful in enhancing fertility rates, enhancing survival rates and synchronizing estrus in farm animals; and may be useful in the prevention and treatment of disfunctions of the oxytocin system in the central nervous system including obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and neuropsychiatric disorders.

The invention discloses a high-yield Shanhua-15 peanut precise-cultivation method. The method comprises the following steps such as field selection, soil preparation, fertilization, seed treatment and sowing and specifically comprises, on the basis of sufficient soil preparation and base fertilizer application, ditching three fertilizing furrows on every ridges during ridging, which include one in the middle and the other two on both sides, and the depth of the furrows is 10-15 cm; applying biological organic insect-prevention fertilizer inside the furrows, performing full irrigation and then soil covering on the furrows, and sowing 2 seeds for each hole between every two fertilizing furrows with a spacing of 15-17 cm; performing film mulching after the sowing. The high-yield Shanhua-15 peanut precise-cultivation method has the advantages of improving the ground temperature inside the sowing ridges, enhancing the fertility of soil and increasing the organic matter content in the soil.

The invention relates to a flower culture earth which is prepared from the following raw materials in parts by weight: 35-40 parts of leaf mold, 10-20 parts of mountain clay, 15-25 parts of garden soil, 5-10 parts of chicken manure, 2-6 parts of bulking agent, 2-7 parts of preservative, 15-20 parts of activated sludge, 15-20 parts of wood dust, 3-8 parts of active microorganism, 15-25 parts of plant ash, 1-5 parts of ammonium sulfate and 20-30 parts of bentonite. The flower nutrient soil has the advantages of abundant nutrient substances, short fermentation time, favorable water and fertility retentivity, favorable air permeability and low cost.