Establishment of pregnancy in domestic ruminants includes pregnancy recognition
signalling by the conceptus, implantation and placentation. Despite the high fertilisation …

The causes of low fertility in dairy cattle are complex and multifactorial and may be due to
compromised follicle development affecting oocyte quality, a suboptimal reproductive tract …

Progesterone (P4) from the corpus luteum is critical for the establishment and maintenance
of pregnancy and plays a major role in regulating endometrial secretions essential for …

Development of assisted reproductive technologies has been driven by the goals of
reducing the incidence of infertility, increasing the number of offspring from genetically elite …

Secretions of the endometrium are vital for peri-implantation growth and development of the
sheep conceptus. Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are present in the uterine lumen, emanate …

According to the World Health Organization, infertility affects up to 14% of couples under
reproductive age, leading to an exponential rise in the use of assisted reproduction as a …

Pregnancy establishment in cattle is contingent on conceptus elongation—a fundamental
developmental event coinciding with the time during which most pregnancies fail …

This study aimed to evaluate the effect of luteal blood perfusion and corpus luteum (CL) area
on the conception rate and occurrence of pregnancy loss of recipients in a large-scale fixed …

This study combined in vitro production of bovine blastocysts, multiple embryo transfer
techniques, and a conceptus-endometrial explant co-culture system to test the hypothesis …

Harnessing information from the maternal blood to predict fetal growth is attractive yet
scarcely explored in livestock. The objectives were to determine the transcriptomic …