Uterine and placental infections are the leading cause of abortion, stillbirth, and preterm delivery in the mare. Whereas uterine and placental infections in women have been studied extensively, a comprehensive examination of the pathogenic processes leading to this unsatisfactory pregnancy outcome in the mare has yet to be completed. Most information in the literature relating to late-term pre...

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small, non-coding RNAs which are produced throughout the body. Individual tissues tend to have a specific expression profile and excrete many of these miRNAs into circulation. These circulating miRNAs may be diagnostically valuable biomarkers for assessing the presence of disease while minimizing invasive testing. In women, numerous circulating miRNAs have been identified...

In 1938 Marker, Rohrmann, and Little (2) isolated from the urine of pregnant mares a new isomer of pregnanediol that they called uranediol. Ten years later, Klyne (3) obtained from the same source a sulfuric acid ester that yielded uranediol on acid hydrolysis. The structure of the free compound was determined by Klyne (4), who showed that it was a 17a-methyl-nhomo-5cr-androstane-3fl,17a&diol (...

INTRODUCTION The objective was to assess the quality of pregnant women's diet in Poland concerning macro-elements and to analyze reasons for low or high quality diets. MATERIAL AND METHODS Five hundred and twelve pregnant women in their 20(th) to 30(th) week of pregnancy took part in the research conducted by means of a 7-day observation of diet. Consumed products were analyzed by means of DI...

Endometritis is one of the major causes of infertility in mares. The present study was conducted to evaluate intrauterine infusion of Eucalyptus globulus oil as treatment for mares with experimentally induced endometritis. Mares (n=8) were synchronized using two injections of PGF2α (10 mg) 14 days apart. All mares were inoculated with a live culture of 5 × 106 CFU S. zooepidemicus in the dioest...

Sequential samples of blood were drawn vi~ jugular catheters every 15 min for 24 h from four mares in each of five reproductive states: 1) intact anestrous mares in winter, 2) intact diestrous mares in summer, 3) intact estrous mares in summer, 4) ovariectomized mares in winter and 5) ovariectomized mares in summer. Estrous mares were sampled on d 4 or 5 of estrus and diestrous mares on d 10 or...

ObjectiveTo investigate the effect of number of dental lesions and routine teeth floating (rasping) on weight gain. DesignA prospective, randomized, controlled, blinded trial. Animals or Sample populationFifty-six pregnant mares. ProcedureMares were randomly allocated into one of 4 feeding groups (n=14) which were then randomly sub-divided into one of two treatment groups, floated and control a...

In 1938 Marker, Rohrmann, and Little (2) isolated from the urine of pregnant mares a new isomer of pregnanediol that they called uranediol. Ten years later, Klyne (3) obtained from the same source a sulfuric acid ester that yielded uranediol on acid hydrolysis. The structure of the free compound was determined by Klyne (4), who showed that it was a 17a-methyl-nhomo-5cr-androstane-3fl,17a&diol (...

anti-müllerian hormone (amh) has been observed to decrease with the development of hemorrhagic anovulatory follicles (hafs) in mares. two studies were conducted to evaluate amh concentration in mares with hafs compared to seasonally anoestrous and cyclic mares, and to elucidate changes of amh with the development of luteinised unruptured follicles (lufs). in study 1, amh and progesterone were e...