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Impact of summer heat stress on the thermal environment of bovine female genital tract
- Source :
- Tropical Animal Health and Production. 52:3449-3455
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020.
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Abstract
- Summer heat stress (HS) is associated with a reduction in conception rate, increase in services per conception, and early embryonic death. However, the impact of summer HS on the thermal environment of different regions of the bovine female genital tract remains unknown. This study aimed to elucidate the effect of summer HS on the thermal environment of different regions of the genital tract in the cow. Three non-pregnant Japanese Black cows were investigated using a specially designed digital thermometer to record the temperatures of the rectum (RT), vagina (VT), cervix (CT), uterine body (UBT), and uterine horns (UHT) on days 0, 1, 2, 3, and 8 of the estrous cycle (day 0 = heat) in February (winter), May (spring), and August (summer). During the experiment, the temperature humidity index (THI) was recorded. THI during summer was higher (P ˂ 0.001) than in winter and spring (78.45 ± 0.32 vs. 60.26 ± 1.20 and 68.51 ± 0.80, respectively) and was higher than the alert THI indicating HS (i.e., THI > 73). Consequently, the VT, CT, UBT, and UHT were elevated during summer HS (P
- Subjects :
- Estrous cycle
Female circumcision
Heat index
040301 veterinary sciences
Summer heat
0402 animal and dairy science
Uterine horns
04 agricultural and veterinary sciences
Biology
040201 dairy & animal science
0403 veterinary science
Early embryonic death
Animal science
medicine.anatomical_structure
Food Animals
Vagina
medicine
Animal Science and Zoology
Cervix
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15737438 and 00494747
- Volume :
- 52
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Tropical Animal Health and Production
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........06a046983158a3f2752bad72b879fbe2