Does ovarian endometrioma affect the number of oocytes retrieved for in vitro fertilization?
Endometrioma did not reduce the number of retrieved oocytes in a COH cycle for IVF treatment. However it should be noted that the ovarian response is affected by the size of endometriomas, bilaterality, previous surgeries, recurrence, and the patient's age (Tab. 1, Ref. 31).
Increased SOD-1 levels in patients with DS may reflect the overexpression by the trisomic state, as a response to the oxidative stress, as has been proposed in DS by several authors. However, it well may be that glial proliferation, which is markedly increased in DS brain, may underlie the increased brain levels of this ubiquitous protein. The decrease of SOD1 in the temporal cortex of patients with AD may reflect an antiapoptotic mechanism or simply cell loss in the brain.