Using Pregnancy-Associated Glycoproteins (PAGs) to improve reproductive management: From dairy cows to other dairy livestock

O Barbato, L Menchetti, G Brecchia, VL Barile - Animals, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Pregnancy loss is a major cause of infertility in dairy animals, particularly
in cattle, which affects the productivity and profitability of farms. Detecting these unsuccessful …

Recent developments in assisted reproduction in goats

W Holtz - Small Ruminant Research, 2005 - Elsevier
Goats are amongst the most fertile of the domestic species. In the temperate zones
seasonality may constitute a limiting factor if intensive production systems are to be …

[HTML][HTML] Pregnancy-associated glycoproteins (PAG) as pregnancy markers in the ruminants

NM Sousa, A Ayad, JF Beckers, Z Gajewski - J Physiol Pharmacol, 2006 - jpp.krakow.pl
In the last years, a polymorphic family of placenta-expressed proteins has been discovered
in ruminant species and used for pregnancy diagnosis. Pregnancy diagnosis is an important …

Caprine pregnancyassociated glycoproteins (PAG): Their cloning, expression, and evolutionary relationship to other PAG

JM Garbayo, JA Green, M Manikkam… - Molecular …, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
Pregnancyassociated glycoproteins (PAG) are structurally related to aspartic proteinases
and belong to an extensive, rapidly evolving family of recently duplicated genes expressed …

Heavy with child? Pregnancy status and stable isotope ratios as determined from biopsies of humpback whales

CT Clark, AH Fleming, J Calambokidis… - Conservation …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Understanding reproductive rates of wild animal populations is crucially important for
management and conservation. Assessing pregnancy status of free-ranging cetaceans has …

Identification of novel pregnancy-associated glycoproteins (PAG) expressed by the peri-implantation conceptus of domestic ruminants

JM Garbayo, B Serrano, F Lopez-Gatius - Animal reproduction science, 2008 - Elsevier
Pregnancy-associated glycoproteins (PAG) are a multigene family, related to aspartic
proteinases, expressed in the placenta of artiodactyls. Ruminant PAG expression varies …

Early pregnancy diagnosis in goats by determination of pregnancy-associated glycoprotein concentrations in plasma samples

F Gonzalez, J Sulon, JM Garbayo, M Batista, F Cabrera… - Theriogenology, 1999 - Elsevier
Different RIA systems available for measuring the concentrations of pregnancy-associated
glycoproteins (PAGs) in dairy goats were compared in order to evaluate their accuracy in …

[PDF][PDF] PREGNANCY DIAGNOSIS TECHNIQUES IN GOATS--A REVIEW.

M Karadaev - Bulgarian Journal of Veterinary Medicine, 2015 - tru.uni-sz.bg
Several techniques for pregnancy diagnosis in goats are developed. Some of them are
efficient and applicable in the field, but not enough accurate. Others are outlined with a high …

Pregnancy associated glycoproteins (PAG) in postpartum cows, ewes, goats and their offspring

G Haugejorden, S Waage, E Dahl, K Karlberg… - Theriogenology, 2006 - Elsevier
Determination of plasma concentrations of pregnancy associated glycoproteins (PAG) has
been used for early pregnancy diagnosis in cows. However, this is complicated by the …

Pregnancy-associated glycoproteins (PAGs) concentrations in water buffaloes (Bubalus bubalis) during gestation and the postpartum period

O Barbato, L Menchetti, NM Sousa, A Malfatti… - Theriogenology, 2017 - Elsevier
For the first time in literature this study describes the pregnancy-associated glycoprotein
(PAG) profile of buffalo cows during gestation and the post-partum period using antiserum …