An experiment was carried out on 10 advance pregnant Murrah buffaloes to determine the role of hormones in milk secretion around parturition. Experimental animals were administered with a single injection of bromocryptine, @ 100 μg/kg BW, for 5 days before expected calving, whereas control group buffaloes were injected with placebo injections. Blood samples collected before parturition (-5,-4,-...

15-keto-13,14-dihydroprostaglandin F2 alpha plasma levels were measured in pregnant women following labor induction with either oral PGE2 treatment or intravenous oxytocin, both combined with amniotomy. The median time to start of contractions was 62 minutes in the PGE2 treated group and 45 minutes in the oxytocin treated group (p less than 0.01; median test). The increase in 15-ketodihydro-PGF...

Corresponding Author: Camila Infantosi Vannucchi Department of Animal Reproduction, School of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science, University of São Paulo (USP), Rua Prof. Orlando Marques de Paiva, 87, São Paulo, 05508-270, Brazil Ph: +55 11 30911423 Email: [email protected] Abstract: Placenta is considered an important endocrine organ during gestation, as well as can also serve as a target or...

and mortality worldwide. Spontaneous preterm labor, with intact or rupture of the chorioamniotic membranes, is responsible for two-thirds of all preterm births. The cost of preterm birth to society is estimated to be approximately $20 billion per year in the United States alone.1 Until recently, preterm labor was considered to result from extemporaneous activation of the components ofthe common...

Bulsu-san (BSS) has been commonly used in oriental medicine for pregnant women in East Asia. The purpose of this research was to elucidate the effect of BSS on ease of parturition using a systems-level in silico analytic approach. Research results show that BSS is highly connected to the parturition related pathways, biological processes, and organs. There were numerous interactions between mos...

Births are highly synchronized among females in many mammal populations in temperate areas. Although laying date for a given female is also repeatable within populations of birds, limited evidence suggests low repeatability of parturition date for individual females in mammals, and between-population variability in repeatability has never, to our knowledge, been assessed. We quantified the repe...

Abstract Background Nutritional strategies for sows designed to reduce peripartum stress are suggested support postpartum recovery and productivity. Spray-dried plasma (SDP) in sow feed has been reported benefit litter performance. Stressed animals fed diets with SDP have a more efficient immune response supporting animal health. The objectives of the present study using 452 (147 parity 1 sows,...

In order to differentiate groups of hypocalcemic (G1) and normocalcemic animals (G2) infer the influence subclinical hypocalcemia on metabolic profiles, this study determined calcium concentrations during transitional period in 35 dairy goats healthy, pregnant, primiparous or multiparous, crossbreed pure-bred producing average 3 kg/day/goat. Therefore, blood samples were collected before (30, 2...