Taste perception plays an important role in regulating food preference, eating behavior and energy homeostasis. Taste perception is modulated by a variety of factors, including gastric hormones such as ghrelin. Ghrelin can regulate growth hormone release, food intake, adiposity, and energy metabolism. Octanoylation of ghrelin by ghrelin O-acyltransferase (GOAT) is a specific post-translational ...

Gender selected or sexed semen has been commercially available to the dairy industry for almost a decade. However, sexed semen from beef bulls has only recently become commercially available. The availability of sexed semen from beef bulls along with concerns about success of the technology at the ranch level has limited the use of sexed semen in purebred and commercial beef operations. Recent ...

In Oklahoma, goat producers are blessed with climatic conditions conducive to viable goat production. However, they also are burdened with the eastward expansion of predator populations that constantly are increasing. Predator control within a goat herd is probably one of the single most important factors in maintaining profitable returns from a goat operation. In 2004, U.S. losses of goats and...

A GROUP of dairymen in New Jersey organized in 1938 the first cooperative in the United States for the artificial insemination of their cows. This method of serving females without natural mating has since become one of the most significant programs for livestock improvement in the history of American agriculture. A great deal of research has been done on all phases. A basic contribution was th...

Farrowing rate and number of pigs born alive were compared after use of either frozen semen or combined fresh and frozen semen matings in nulliparous gilts. Estrus was synchronized using Altrenogest (AT: Regu-Mate® Solution, Hoescht Roussel Vet, Warren, New Jersey) and detected with a mature boar. The farrowing rate was 74% for females inseminated with frozen semen, and 88% for females insemina...

Bovine viral diarrhoea virus (BVDV) is an economically important pathogen of cattle worldwide. Infection of a pregnant animal may lead to persistent infection of the foetus and birth of a persistently infected (PI) calf that sheds the virus throughout its life. However, BVD viruses are not strictly species specific. BVDV has been isolated from many domesticated and wild ruminants. This is of pr...

PURPOSE This study was conducted to find the relative risk of semen abnormality with respect to smoking history and obesity. MATERIALS AND METHODS Subfertile or infertile men were enrolled in this study from July 2010 to June 2011. All participants provided their cigarette use information, self-reported weight, height, semen analysis, physical examination, and sexually transmitted disease sta...

BACKGROUND Population-based study of semen quality is rare in literature. METHODS Healthy men aged 20-60 years from six Chinese provinces were invited to participate in the study between December 2000 and November 2002. Posters were distributed in the participating counties to enroll 200 subjects from each province. Medians, percentiles, and proportions below lower threshold of the WHO criter...

The aim of this study was to determine the influence of time interval between semen collection and artificial insemination (AI) and the number of spermatozoa in AI doses, on the AI success rate in Tunisian Arabian mares. A total of 79 AI with fresh semen was used on 56 mares (age 4-9 years, n = 34; age 10-20 years, n = 22). The AI success rate was defined as the number of pregnant mares divided...