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The Concise Guide to Pharmacology 2025/26 marks the seventh edition in this series of biennial publications in the British Journal of Pharmacology. Presented in landscape format, the guide provides a comparative overview of the pharmacology…

Body compassion bridges together the constructs of body image and self-compassion and refers to the relationship people have with their bodies, encompassing defusion, common humanity and acceptance. The purpose of the current study was to v…

OBJECTIVE: An understanding of the role that self and body compassion may play as protective mechanisms in the context of psychological and physical health conditions is steadily increasing. The availability of research pertaining to their …

PurposeTo evaluate the relationship between progesterone and oocyte maturity rate via estradiol to progesterone ratio (E/P) at the time of ovulatory trigger.MethodsThis is a retrospective cohort study of first autologous IVF cycles from Jan…

PurposeTo evaluate whether endometrial compaction using sequential transvaginal ultrasound is associated with improved live birth rates in medicated single euploid frozen embryo transfer (FET) cycles.MethodsProspective observational cohort …

There has been significant progress in the understanding of the pathology and molecular biology of rare ovarian cancers, which has helped both diagnosis and treatment. This paper provides an update on recent advances in the knowledge and tr…

Recent gynaecological studies show that childbirth, constipation, trauma and surgery cause injuries to autonomic nerves at different anatomical sites in the female pelvis resulting in endometriosis, adenomyosis and fibroids. Re-growth of ab…

The denervation-reinnervation view proposes that retrograde menstruation results from loss of normal, fundocervical polarity caused by injuries to uterine nerves. Injuries may be sporadic (following vaginal delivery) or recurrent (after per…

This study describes the innervation of the uterus with a histopathological diagnosis of adenomyosis in a retrospective survey of two groups of uteri. Group 1 consisted of 17 histologically-normal, parous uteri and eight nulliparous uteri. …

ObjectiveChronic pelvic pain is associated with a wide range of clinical conditions that include endometriosis. The precise cause, mechanisms of pain, and natural history are imprecise. Patterns of uterine innervation have been studied afte…

Endometriosis describes endometrium found outside the uterine cavity and is frequently associated with clinical presentations of chronic pelvic pain, dysmenorrhoea, dyspareunia and subfertility. It was originally attributed to retrograde me…

"Uterine nerve fibre proliferation in advanced endometriosis." Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 24(8), pp. 932–933