Relationship between thermal environment, thermoregulatory responses and energy metabolism in goats: A comprehensive review

ARC Lima, RMF Silveira, MSM Castro… - Journal of Thermal …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Knowledge on heat stress of animals is key to developing management strategies
to mitigate its effects on livestock production. Efficiency and profitability of production …

Genes for resilience to heat stress in small ruminants: A review

V Sejian, M Bagath, G Krishnan, VP Rashamol… - Small Ruminant …, 2019 - Elsevier
Small ruminants have several advantages for being an integral part of the pastoral
production system because of their short gestation period, high prolificacy, rapid growth rate …

Counteract severe heat stress by including different forms of zinc in the rabbit bucks' diet

YM El-Gindy, SM Zahran, MH Ahmed, AM Ali… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
The harmful influences of global warming on rabbit reproduction and industry attract global
attention. Zinc (Zn) is an important trace element with a wide list of functions in the male …

Heat stress and histopathological changes of vital organs: A novel approach to assess climate resilience in farm animals

EB Rebez, V Sejian, MV Silpa, FR Dunshea - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
Heat stress causes functional and metabolic alterations in different cells and tissues. There
are several pathomorphological changes and biomarkers associated with head load in …

Climate change and goat production: Enteric methane emission and its mitigation

P Pragna, SS Chauhan, V Sejian, BJ Leury… - Animals, 2018 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Given that goats are considered more climate resilient than other ruminant
species, research efforts are therefore needed to understand goat productivity during …

Heat stress and thermoregulatory responses of goats: a review

M Gupta, T Mondal - Biological Rhythm Research, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Good health is central to animal welfare as it indicates their physiological functioning.
Sustainability of livestock is largely affected by prevailing climatic conditions. Animals …

Stress amelioration potential of vitamin C in ruminants: a review

OF Akinmoladun - Tropical Animal Health and Production, 2022 - Springer
Ruminants, as well as other livestock, can synthesize vitamin C (VC) in their liver, and
therefore, dietary requirements from exogenous supplementation are often ignored …

Transcription pattern of key molecular chaperones in heat shocked caprine cardiac fibroblasts

PP Satapathy, SR Mishra, S Patnaik… - Animal …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The present study was attempted to unveil the impact of heat stress on transcription pattern
of major heat shock response genes in caprine cardiac fibroblasts. Cardiac tissues (n= 6) …

Folic acid and taurine alleviate the impairment of redox status, immunity, rumen microbial composition and fermentation of lambs under heat stress

B Li, K Wu, G Duan, W Yin, M Lei, Y Yan, Y Ren… - Animals, 2024 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Heat stress (HS) constantly happens to dry lot feeding sheep during the
summer, inevitably causing substantial losses to animal production due to its unfavorable …

Summer season induced changes in quantitative expression patterns of different heat shock response genes in Salem black goats

AP Madhusoodan, M Bagath, V Sejian… - Tropical Animal Health …, 2020 - Springer
Research efforts of elucidating the molecular mechanisms governing heat shock response
which imparts thermo-tolerance ability to indigenous breeds are very scanty. Therefore, a …