Extensive sheep and goat production: The role of novel technologies towards sustainability and animal welfare

SR Silva, L Sacarrão-Birrento, M Almeida, DM Ribeiro… - Animals, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary New technologies have been recognized as valuable in controlling,
monitoring, and managing farm animal activities. It makes it possible to deepen the …

Caffeine: A potential strategy to improve survival of neonatal pigs and sheep

AM Swinbourne, KL Kind, T Flinn, DO Kleemann… - Animal Reproduction …, 2021 - Elsevier
Caffeine is commonly used to treat pre-and postnatal injuries, including apnoea in
premature infants, as well as neurological impairment caused by hypoxia or asphyxiation …

Influence of maternal factors (weight, body condition, parity, and pregnancy rank) on plasma metabolites of dairy ewes and their lambs

JL Pesántez-Pacheco, A Heras-Molina… - Animals, 2019 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The present study assessed the effects of maternal parity, weight, body
condition score (BCS), and pregnancy rank (single vs. multiple) on maternal metabolism …

PPARA/RXRA signalling regulates the fate of hepatic non-esterified fatty acids in a sheep model of maternal undernutrition

Y Xue, C Guo, F Hu, W Zhu, S Mao - … Acta (BBA)-Molecular and Cell Biology …, 2020 - Elsevier
Maternal undernutrition during late gestation accelerates body fat mobilization to provide
more energy for foetal growth and development, which unbalances metabolic homeostasis …

Maternal undernutrition induces fetal hepatic lipid metabolism disorder and affects the development of fetal liver in a sheep model

Y Xue, C Guo, F Hu, W Zhu, S Mao - The FASEB Journal, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Undernutrition accelerates body fat mobilization to alleviate negative energy balance, which
disrupts homeostasis of lipid metabolism in maternal liver. However, little is known about its …

Molecular mechanisms of lipid metabolism disorder in livers of ewes with pregnancy toxemia

YF Xue, CZ Guo, F Hu, DM Sun, JH Liu, SY Mao - Animal, 2019 - cambridge.org
Pathogenesis of pregnancy toxemia (PT) is believed to be associated with the disruption of
lipid metabolism. The present study aimed to explore the underlying mechanisms of lipid …

The response of ruminal fermentation, epithelium-associated microbiota, and epithelial barrier function to severe feed restriction in pregnant ewes

F Hu, Y Xue, C Guo, J Liu, S Mao - Journal of animal science, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The objective of this study was to evaluate the changes in the ruminal fermentation,
epithelium-associated microbiota, and ruminal epithelial barrier function in response to …

Cardiac biomarkers troponin I and CK-MB in ewes affected by pregnancy toxemia

LM de Souza, CL de Mendonça, RN de ASSIS… - Small Ruminant …, 2019 - Elsevier
The evaluation of biomarkers of myocardial injury, such as Troponin I (cTnI) and the
myocardial band of creatine kinase (CK-MB) has not yet been studied in Brazil, in ewes …

Evaluation of three therapeutic alternatives for the early treatment of ovine pregnancy toxaemia

L Cal-Pereyra, JR González-Montaña, A Benech… - Irish veterinary …, 2015 - Springer
Background Ovine pregnancy toxaemia is a common metabolic disorder of ewes due to
increased foetal energy requirements in late pregnancy. This pathology is a metabolic …

Assessment the alterations of some biochemical parameters in Afshari sheep with possible metabolic disorders

S Lotfollahzadeh, A Zakian, M Tehrani-Sharif… - Small Ruminant …, 2016 - Elsevier
Clinical or subclinical ketosis is a very common metabolic disease in late-pregnancy in
sheep, which causes severe economic losses to sheep flocks. Ovine pregnancy toxaemia …