Sexualité des patients après traitements anti-cancéreux-nécessité d'une prévention

Sex and cancer, pleasure and death are words very difficult and painful to associate and to evoke. The sexuality of patients with cancerous diseases is unrecognized by physicians and very little present in the practice of sexology. the sexual life of cancerous patients must be preserved. The preventions must have aims, means and time. The aims are: to allow, to keep, to find or to rediscover a sexual and relational life. The means are:

? systematic information on the clinical reality and his results,

? directed information on the sexual reality and his capacities,

? thinked information on the sense and the value of the sexuality and of the pleasure.

The time is before, during and after the treatment for cancer. The prevention is also sexological treatments if sexuals symptoms occur.     

L’insémination intrautérine dans l’éjaculation rétrograde. Importance du pH et de l’osmolarité sur la mobilité des spermatozoïdes

The effect of pH and osmolarity on motility of human spermatozoa in retrograde ejaculation was studied in a freshly voided urine specimen. The maximum rate of motility is obtained when the pH ranged from 7.0 to 7.5 and osmolarity from 300 to 400 m.osmol/Kg. Thus the control of these two parameters allowed us to improve sperm motility and to perform intrauterine insemination with ovarian hyperstimulation. The different causes of retrograde ejaculation in this study are diabetes, surgical injury and idiopathic. Fifty-one intrauterine insemination cycles were realized in twenty-three patients, and eleven pregnancies are obtained (21.5% per cycle).     

Existence d''une phéromone sexuelle chezCaryedon serratus: Attractivité des femelles et réactivité des males

Résumé Les femelles deCaryedon serratus (Ol.) produisent, pendant la scotophase, une phéromone sexuelle volatile qui déclenche chez les males une chémoanémotaxie positive. Les effets de l'age sur l'attractivité des femelles et sur la réactivité des males ont été étudiés. Plus de soixante-dix pour cent des males commencent à réagir à la phéromone sexuelle dès les premières 24 heures qui suivent leur émergence. Une seule femelle sur 31 a été attractive à cet age. A 48 heures, le pourcentage des femelles attractives est de 38,7%. Il existe une variabilité inter et intra femelles dans la production de phéromone sexuelle (début, régularité). L'existence des récepteurs antennaires à la phéromone sexuelle chez le male est montrée par des études électrophysiologiques (EAG). La variabilité de la production de phéromone sexuelle est discutée.

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Summary The female ofCaryedon serratus release, from the beginning of scotophase, a sex pheromone witch triggers a positive chemoanemotaxy in males. The effects of age on female attractiveness and on male reactivity are studied. About 70.37% of males begin to react to the sex pheromone within the first 24 h after emergence. At this age, only one female out of 31 is attractive. At 48 h, the percentage of attractive females is 38.7%. There is inter and intra-female variation in sex pheromone production (beginning, regularity). The existence of receptors on male antennae for this pheromone is shown by electrophysiology (EAG). The variability in sex pheromone production is discussed.

     

Photosensibilité des graines depinus banksiana Lamb.

Germination ofPinus banksiana seeds is controlled by the photoreversible phytochrome reaction. The seeds, even unimbibed, are sensitive to red light. At 660 nm, the energy required to promote germination to the same order of magnitude is much higher for unimbibed seeds than for the imbibed ones. In both cases it is possible to reverse the effect of a single red light irradiation by applying far red light (730 nm).