Currently, no early pregnancy marker has been identified in the bitch. However, significantly decreased concentrations of heat-shock protein (HSP) 70 and increased activity of matrix metalloproteinases (MMP) 2,9 were detected in serum from bitches during the pre-implantation period between days 5 and 13 after mating, that is, 2-3 days after ovulation as determined by the measurement of progeste...

Bitches exhibited a characteristic arborization pattern of the fluid from the anterior vagina during pro-oestrus and oestrus. These changes were monitored together with conventional vaginal cytology and plasma oestrogen and progestagen concentrations. A classical ferning pattern, similar to that seen in bovine cervical mucus at oestrus, occurred after the peak in plasma oestrogen concentrations...

Background c-KIT is a proto-oncogene that synthesizes a tyrosine kinase protein responsible for cell growth. Higher expression of c-KIT protein in women normal breasts correlates with differentiation status of normal breast epithelium, while loss of c-KIT expression is observed during progression or malignant transformation of mammary epithelium. In bitches the role of this tyrosine kinase rece...

Canine pyometra is a hormonally mediated life-threatening uterine disease of canines, associated with bacterial infection and inflammation. The characterized by the accumulation pus in uterus systemic illness. study was undertaken to assess relevance band cells circulation Doppler ultrasonography prognostic evaluation medically managed canine pyometra. A significantly higher neutrophils were re...

They’ll call them Bs [bitches], hos, tramps, sluts, stuff like that. They don’t care. They don’t have no respect for females at all. They beat up females over here and all that, throw them out of windows. Oh, my God. These projects is crazy. They throw their girlfriends out of windows and everything else, pull out guns on them and stuff. They don’t really too much care for females over here. —T...

A change in feeding behavior on the 15th and 16th day of the maternal cycle was observed in experimental bitches whose own litter was partly replaced, on the onset of the 15th day, by foster puppies 12-13 days younger. The number of feeding acts and the overall feeding time increased, as compared with the indices for 2 days preceding the exchange of puppies (the 13th and 14th day of the materna...