Heat stress in dairy animals and current milk production trends, economics, and future perspectives: the global scenario

AK Wankar, SN Rindhe, NS Doijad - Tropical Animal Health and …, 2021 - Springer
Animal's well-being, growth, and production are modulated by environmental conditions,
and managemental practices and can be deleteriously affected by global warming …

Pregnancy and breast cancer: pathways to understand risk and prevention

PF Slepicka, SL Cyrill, CO Dos Santos - Trends in molecular medicine, 2019 - cell.com
Several studies have made strong efforts to understand how age and parity modulate the
risk of breast cancer. A holistic understanding of the dynamic regulation of the …

Cortisol in mother's milk across lactation reflects maternal life history and predicts infant temperament

K Hinde, AL Skibiel, AB Foster, L Del Rosso… - Behavioral …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
The maternal environment exerts important influences on offspring mass/growth,
metabolism, reproduction, neurobiology, immune function, and behavior among birds …

The effects of cow-related factors on rectal temperature, respiration rate, and temperature-humidity index thresholds for lactating cows exposed to heat stress

G Yan, K Liu, Z Hao, Z Shi, H Li - Journal of Thermal Biology, 2021 - Elsevier
The objectives of this study were to investigate the effects of the cow-related factors on rectal
temperature (RT) and respiration rate (RR) of lactating dairy cows under different heat stress …

[HTML][HTML] Fatty acid profile characterization in colostrum, transition milk, and mature milk of primi-and multiparous cows during the first week of lactation

JN Wilms, KS Hare, AJ Fischer-Tlustos, P Vahmani… - Journal of dairy …, 2022 - Elsevier
The specific fatty acid (FA) profile of colostrum may indicate a biological requirement for
neonatal calves. The objective of this study was to characterize the FA profile and yields in …

Associative patterns among anaerobic fungi, methanogenic archaea, and bacterial communities in response to changes in diet and age in the rumen of dairy cows

S Kumar, N Indugu, B Vecchiarelli… - Frontiers in microbiology, 2015 - frontiersin.org
The rumen microbiome represents a complex microbial genetic web where bacteria,
anaerobic rumen fungi (ARF), protozoa and archaea work in harmony contributing to the …

Holsteins favor heifers, not bulls: biased milk production programmed during pregnancy as a function of fetal sex

K Hinde, AJ Carpenter, JS Clay, BJ Bradford - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Mammalian females pay high energetic costs for reproduction, the greatest of which is
imposed by lactation. The synthesis of milk requires, in part, the mobilization of bodily …

[HTML][HTML] Colostrogenesis: Mass transfer of immunoglobulin G1 into colostrum

CR Baumrucker, AM Burkett, AL Magliaro-Macrina… - Journal of dairy …, 2010 - Elsevier
Bovine IgG1 is thought to be specifically transported by a process of transcytosis across the
mammary epithelial cells during colostrogenesis. Mammary IgG1 appearance in cow …

An epigenetic memory of pregnancy in the mouse mammary gland

CO Dos Santos, E Dolzhenko, E Hodges, AD Smith… - Cell reports, 2015 - cell.com
Pregnancy is the major modulator of mammary gland activity. It induces a tremendous
expansion of the mammary epithelium and the generation of alveolar structures for milk …

Metabolomics of milk reflects a negative energy balance in cows

W Xu, A Van Knegsel, E Saccenti… - Journal of proteome …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Dairy cows can experience a negative energy balance (NEB) in early lactation when feed
intake is too low to meet the energy requirements for body maintenance and milk production …