during a period of one year, reproductive status of twenty one healthy maiden and parous turkaman cross bred mares were studied during breeding and non breeding seasons the reproductive health and fertility of the mares ranging 3 -13 years of age were confirmed by taking history, performing rectal palpation and studying endometrial culture, cytology and histology. stages of the oestrous cycles ...

BACKGROUND Aquaporins (AQPs) are a family of membrane channel proteins that facilitate bulk water transport. To date, 11 isoforms of AQPs have been reported to be expressed in the female and male reproductive systems. The purpose of our study was to determine the localization and quantitative changes in the expression of AQP1, 5 and 9 within the pig uterus during different stages of the estrous...

Japanese Dairy Cattle Productivity Analysis is carried out based on Bayesian Network Model (BNM). Through the experiment with 280 Japanese anestrus Holstein dairy cow, it is found that the estimation for finding out the presence of estrous cycle using BNM represents almost 55% accuracy while considering all samples. On the contrary, almost 73% accurate estimation could be achieved while using s...

Peroxisome proliferator activated receptors (PPARs) are ligand-dependent transcriptional factors which are expressed in distinct tissues of the female reproductive system, including the ovary, uterus and placenta. An important role of PPARs in the regulation of reproductive processes has been previously highlighted in rodents. In the present study we investigated the in vitro effect of PPAR lig...

BACKGROUND Estradiol and progesterone as well as hippocampal GABA(A) receptors are believed to play a role in the modulation of pain. The aim of present study was to investigate the effect of intrahippocampal injections of GABA(A) receptor agonist (muscimol) and GABA(A) receptor antagonist (picrotoxin) on pain sensitivity during estrous cycle. METHODS Pain sensitivity was evaluated in rats by...

The objective of present study is to determine the effect of green coconut water on estrous cycle in metoclopramide-induce hyperprolactinemia in female Sprague-Dawley rats. Fifty adult cyclic female Sprague-Dawley rats were used for this study. The animals were treated with green coconut water (GCW) before, after and concurrently with metoclopramide to induce hyperprolactinemia. The posttreated...

To investigate uterine and serum copper (Cu) and zinc (Zn) concentrations variation during the bovine estrus cycle , 232 blood and genital tract samples were collected from the abattoir in Urmia. The phase of the estrous cycle was determined by the examination of the ovaries and the uterine tonicity. Of the 46 samples selected for use in the study, 13 were pro-estrus, 10 estrus, 8 metestrus, an...

Introduction: Gonadotropin inhibitory hormone (GnIH) has been known as a key inhibitor of the secretion of gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH). Ewe has estrous cycles comprising of follicular and luteal phases. Follicular phase is in turn divided into proestrous and estrous phases. Blood level of LH increases in follicular and decreases in luteal phases. The aim of the present study was to...

Kisspeptin and RFamide-related peptide-3 (RFRP-3) are known to affect GnRH/luteinizing hormone (LH) in several species, including the rat. It has been hypothesized that GnRH/LH changes during the rat estrous cycle may result from changes in the expression of KiSS1 and RFRP-3 genes. Therefore, the present study investigates KiSS1 and RFRP-3 gene expression at the transcriptional level in the rat...