Background: Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a hormonal disorder in women with unknown causes and is the leading cause of infertility in women of reproductive age, presenting a wide range of clinical manifestations worldwide. The objective of study is to compare the correlation between hormones, lipid profile, oxidative stress and Zinc concentration in PCOS patients. Methods: The present study examined hormone levels (progesterone, prolactin, luteinizing and follicle stimulation hormones (LH and FSH, respectively), antioxidant factors (catalase, glutathione-s-transferase), lipid profiles and zinc concentration of 50 Iraqi women patients' diagnosis with PCOS and 40 healthy women, divided in two age groups of 15-29 and 30-45 years. Body mass index was estimated for two age groups. Results: The results showed decreasing of catalase, glutathione, and Zn concentrations with an increase in age. A slightly significant increase in LH and prolactin and decrease in high-density lipoprotein (HDL-C) with an increase in age in the patient group compared to the control group was noted. Conclusions: Our study demonstrated that some factors (such as family history, genetics, environmental, etc…) could play a role in altering hormone levels, lipid profiles, and antioxidant. Controlling these factors may be useful for reducing the PCOS-associated problems in women's health. Needed extensive studies to assess the correlation with insulin resistant and obesity.

Novel derivatives of heterocyclic azo compounds have been synthesized through a free catalyst reaction. The structures of the synthesized compounds were confirmed by using different techniques such as 1H-NMR, 13C-NMR, and mass spectroscopy. The prepared derivatives were evaluated as corrosion inhibitors for mild steel after the inhibitory performance toward mild steel in 0.1 M HCl solution. The prepared derivatives, i.e. (1,1'-(((1E,1'E)-1,4-Phenylenebis(diazene-2,1-diyl))bis(4-methyl-3,1-phenylene))bis(1H-pyrrole-2, 5-dione)) 1 and (1,1'-(((1Z,1'Z)-(Oxybis(4,1-phenylene))bis(diazene-2,1-diyl)) bis(4-methyl-3,1-phenylene))bis(1H-pyrrole-2,5-dione)) 2 showed inhibition efficiency 89.22% and 91.30%, respectively at concentration 1 × 10–3 M. The isotherm adsorptions of these derivatives were found to obey Langmuir model. Furthermore, Density functional theory was used for theoretical estimation of the HOMO, LUMO, and other chemical quantum parameters. The results indicated that the synthesized derivatives displayed a corrosive inhibitory property in which derivative 2 was more effective than derivative 1. In addition, the theoretical results were in agreement with the experimental data.

The Coordination chemistry and cyclic voltammetry exploration of Cu(II), Co(II), Ni(II) and Zn(II) complexes of novel (E)-3,4-dichloro-N-(2-(1-(pyridin-2-yl)ethylidene)hydrazine-1-carbonothioyl) benzamide ligand

The synthesis of novel N,Nʹ-disubstituted benzoyl thiourea ligand [3,4-dichloro-N-((5-chloropyridin-2-yl)carbamothioyl) benzamide] (L) is achieved in two steps. First step by refluxing KSCN with 3,4-dichloro benzoyl chloride in CH3CN solvent and the other step by the reaction of the resulting filtrate from the first step with 2-amino-5-chloropyridine. The copper(II), Cobalt(II), Nickel(II) and Zinc(II) chloride and acetate salts were coordinated with L ligand in the 1:1 and 1:2 mole ratios (M:L) in the solvent mixture of DMF/H2O or CHCl3/methanol to form the complexes with structural formulas {[LMCl2] and [L2M](CH3COO)2, M= Copper(II), Cobalt(II), Nickel(II) and Zinc(II) ions}. Two mole ratios of the starting materials, 1:1 and 1:2 (M:L) were experimented to form chloride complexes, the product was with structural formula [LMCl2] while acetate complexes with [L2M](CH3COO)2 formula are resulted with the same conditions. Ligand L and its complexes [LCuCl2], [LCoCl2], [LNiCl2], [LZnCl2], [L2Cu](CH3COO)2, [L2Co](CH3COO)2, [L2Ni](CH3COO)2 and [(L)2Zn](CH3COO)2 have been characterized by mass spectrometry, elemental analysis, magnetic moments, conductivity measurements, solubility test, UVvisible, FTIR, 1 H and 13 C NMR spectroscopies. Electrochemical studies were probed by using cyclic voltammetry technique(CV). The data reflect the quasi-reversible reductive nature for the Copper(II) complexes with one electron transfer process while Nickel(II) and Cobalt(II) complexes exhibited two consecutive irreversible reductive nature. The observed UVvisible, elemental analysis, molar conductivity, magnetic moment measurements and solubility test revealed that the metal ion in the all prepared complexes adopted four coordinated square planar structures and [LCuCl2], [LCoCl2], [LNiCl2], [LZnCl2], are formed as neutral complexes while [L2Cu](CH3COO)2, [L2Co](CH3COO)2, [L2Ni](CH3COO)2 and [(L)2Zn](CH3COO)2 adopted anion complexes. The observed magnetic moments show diamagnetic properties of Zinc(II) and Nickel(II) complexes while Copper(II) and Cobalt(II) appeared as paramagnetic species. FT-IR analysis confirmed the coordination sites between the central metal ion with ligand L through two sites, the nitrogen atom in pyridyl ring and the sulphur atom in C=S group.

Essential minerals are important for human health because they support biochemical reactions in metabolism and may play a role in the development of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency (G6PD). We investigated the relationship between calcium, magnesium, urea, creatinine, total protein, glucose and vitamin D levels in G6PD deficiency in this study. The control group consisted of 40 people (23 females and 17 males) and the patient group consisted of 50 people (20 females and 30 males), all of whom were between the ages of (1-12 years). The findings revealed that the calcium level in patients, depending on sex factor, has a highly significant increase (p <0.0001) when compared to the control group, especially in children who are females rather than males who are affected by G6PD deficiency.In addition, the level of magnesium was found to be significantly different (p <0.0001) in children male patients when compared to the control group. On the other side, the level of total protein was found to be significantly high in children patients (p <0.01) when comparing with control group, and the levels of urea, creatinine and glucose were found to be highly significant increase (p <0.001) in patients when comparing to healthy groups, vitamin D levels were significantly lower (p <0.0001) with G6PD deficiency comparing to control group. In conclusion, the low and high significant associations between vitamin D, calcium, magnesium, urea, creatinine, and glucose indicate that more research is needed to better understand their roles in G6PD development.