Influence of nutrition, body condition, and metabolic status on reproduction in female beef cattle: A review

JD Michael, PS Baruselli, G Campanile - Theriogenology, 2019 - Elsevier
Nutrition is of fundamental importance in reproductive function of female beef cattle. Nutrition
determines live weight (LW) and body condition score (BCs) and both were found more than …

Timed artificial insemination: current challenges and recent advances in reproductive efficiency in beef and dairy herds in Brazil

PS Baruselli, RM Ferreira, MHA Colli… - Animal …, 2018 - animal-reproduction.org
Beef and dairy productivity depends directly on the reproductive efficiency and genetic gain
of the herd, which can be related to the appropriate use of biotechnologies, such as timed …

Pro-inflammatory cytokines and hypothalamic inflammation: implications for insufficient feed intake of transition dairy cows

B Kuhla - Animal, 2020 - cambridge.org
Improvements in feed intake of dairy cows entering the early lactation period potentially
decrease the risk of metabolic disorders, but before developing approaches targeting the …

Nutritional control of puberty in the bovine female: prenatal and early postnatal regulation of the neuroendocrine system

RC Cardoso, SM West, TS Maia, BRC Alves… - Domestic animal …, 2020 - Elsevier
Puberty is a complex biological event that requires maturation of the reproductive
neuroendocrine axis and subsequent initiation of high-frequency, episodic release of GnRH …

Immunohistochemical characterization of the arcuate kisspeptin/neurokinin B/dynorphin (KNDy) and preoptic kisspeptin neuronal populations in the hypothalamus …

A Hassaneen, Y Naniwa, Y Suetomi… - … of Reproduction and …, 2016 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Elucidating the physiological mechanisms that control reproduction is an obvious strategy
for improving the fertility of cattle and developing new agents to control reproductive …

[HTML][HTML] Neuroendocrine signaling pathways and the nutritional control of puberty in heifers

RC Cardoso, BRC Alves, GL Williams - Animal reproduction, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Puberty is a complex physiological process in females that requires maturation of the
reproductive neuroendocrine system and subsequent initiation of high-frequency, episodic …

[HTML][HTML] Impacts of nutritional management during early postnatal life on long-term physiological and productive responses of beef cattle

KM Harvey, RF Cooke, P Moriel - Frontiers in Animal Science, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Effective early postnatal nutritional management is a crucial component of livestock
production systems, and nutrient manipulation during this period has been shown to exert …

Nutritional programming of accelerated puberty in heifers: involvement of pro‐opiomelanocortin neurones in the arcuate nucleus

RC Cardoso, BRC Alves, SM Sharpton… - Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The timing of puberty and subsequent fertility in female mammals are dependent on the
integration of metabolic signals by the hypothalamus. Pro‐opiomelanocortin (POMC) …

Effect of pre-partum dam supplementation, creep-feeding and post-weaning feedlot on age at puberty in Nellore heifers

DD Nepomuceno, AV Pires, MVCF Junior, MV Biehl… - Livestock Science, 2017 - Elsevier
The objective of this study was to evaluate the impact of three nutritional strategies and their
interactions on age at puberty in Nellore heifers. The treatments were arranged in factorial …

[HTML][HTML] Gestational and postnatal nutritional effects on the neuroendocrine control of puberty and subsequent reproductive performance in heifers

V Garza, SM West, RC Cardoso - animal, 2023 - Elsevier
Pubertal attainment is an intricate biological process that involves maturation of the
reproductive neuroendocrine axis and increased pulsatile release of gonadotropin …