Building on the successful structure of the first edition, the second edition of Reproductive
Technologies in Farm Animals has been totally updated and revised to provide an up to date …

A reliable, easy to assess marker for fertility in agricultural species would be highly desirable
and Anti-Müllerian Hormone (AMH) is a promising candidate. This review summarizes …

Two lineage segregation events in mammalian development form the trophectoderm,
primitive endoderm, and pluripotent primitive ectoderm. In mouse embryos, Oct4, Cdx2 …

The occurrence of pregnancies and births after embryo transfer (ET) of in vivo produced
embryos is generally more successful compared to that of embryos produced in vitro. This …

Background In the developing embryo, total RNA abundance fluctuates caused by functional
RNA degradation and zygotic genome activation. These variations in the transcriptome in …

Civilizations throughout the world continue to depend on pig meat as an important food
source. Approximately 40% of the red meat consumed annually worldwide (94 million metric …

Although fragmented and sometimes inconsistent, the proof of a vital link between the
importance of the physiological status of the mother and her subsequent reproductive …

Current studies indicate that application of oviduct cells (OCs) in in vitro system create
microenvironment similar to the in vivo conditions by releasing multiple growth factors which …

The possibility that differences in hormonal regimes between the two oviducts in the cow
around ovulation affects secretory activity of the oviduct epithelial cells and/or sperm–oviduct …

For exploring the processes leading to successful reproduction, differentiated long-term in
vitro systems modelling the mammalian oviduct are needed. Therefore, in the present study …