Conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) has attracted great attention in recent years as a popular
class of functional food that is broadly used. It refers to a group of geometric and positional …

Global warming is considered as the main environmental stress affecting ecosystems as
well as physiological and biochemical characteristics, and survivability of living organisms …

Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are one of the factors which reduces oocyte quality and
viability of the in vitro produced embryos. Oocyte mitochondria are the major source of ROS …

Selenium (Se), an essential trace element, plays an important role in the antioxidative
defense mechanism, and it has been proven to improve fertility and reproductive efficiency …

Heat stress is an environmental factor that challenges livestock by disturbing animal
homeostasis. Despite the broad detrimental effects of heat stress on reproductive function …

Conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) is a mixture of positional isomers of linoleic acid found in
ruminant products and meat. The diet supplementing with CLA is an emerging area …

Aflatoxin is considered as one of the most harmful mycotoxins in the world to be found in
human food and animal feed. Previous reports have revealed that Aflatoxin B1 (AFB1) may …

The generation of mammalian embryos by in vitro culture is hampered by the failure of many
of the embryos to develop to the blastocyst stage. This problem occurs even when cumulus …

Fetal programming suggests that maternal stimulation and nutrition during the period of fetal
development can program the progeny. Conjugated linoleic acid (CLA), an isomer of linoleic …

Cows acutely heat stressed after a pharmacologically induced luteinizing hormone (LH)
surge had periovulatory changes in the follicular fluid proteome that may potentiate …