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 …

Metabolism and ATP levels within the oocyte and adjacent cumulus cells are associated
with quality of oocyte and optimal development of a healthy embryo. Lipid metabolism …

This review considers how our understanding of preimplantation embryo metabolism has
progressed since the pioneering work on this topic in the late 1960s and early 1970s …

Lipids are indispensable for energy storage, membrane structure and cell signalling.
However, dynamic changes in various categories of endogenous lipids in mammalian early …

Emerging studies indicate that the Hippo pathway, a highly conserved pathway that
regulates organ size control, plays an important role in governing ovarian physiology …

Obesity, diabetes, and related metabolic disorders are major health issues worldwide. As
the epidemic of metabolic disorders continues, the associated medical co-morbidities …

Current challenges in capturing naive human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) suggest that
the factors regulating human naive versus primed pluripotency remain incompletely defined …

Simple Summary The efficiency of producing embryos using in vitro technologies in cattle
species remains lower when compared to mice, indicating that the proportion of female …

The ability of an oocyte to undergo successful cytoplasmic and nuclear maturation,
fertilization and embryo development is referred to as the oocyte's quality or developmental …

Fatty acid oxidation is an important energy source for the oocyte; however, little is known
about how this metabolic pathway is regulated in cumulus-oocyte complexes. Analysis of …