Heat stress, the follicle, and its enclosed oocyte: mechanisms and potential strategies to improve fertility in dairy cows

Z Roth - Reproduction in Domestic Animals, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Contents Reduced reproductive performance of lactating cows during the summer is
associated with decreased thermoregulatory competence due to intensive genetic selection …

Beneficial Effect of Melatonin on Blastocyst In Vitro Production from Heat‐Stressed Bovine Oocytes

A Cebrian‐Serrano, I Salvador, E Raga… - … in domestic animals, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Contents Melatonin may play an important role in protecting gametes and embryos from the
potential harmful effects of oxidative stress. In this study, we first examined two different heat …

Efficiency of two enucleation methods connected to handmade cloning to produce transgenic porcine embryos

J Li, K Villemoes, Y Zhang, Y Du… - … in Domestic Animals, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Contents The purpose of our work was to establish an efficient‐oriented enucleation method
to produce transgenic embryos with handmade cloning (HMC). After 41–42 h oocytes …

Heat Stress in Lactating and Non-lactating Dairy Cows

J Laporta, AL Skibiel - … in Farm Animals: Pathophysiology, Prophylaxis and …, 2024 - Springer
The negative consequences of heat stress on the dairy industry are substantial. Elevated
ambient temperatures lead to a cascade of detrimental effects, including declines in …