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Relationship between electrical resistance of cervical mucus and ovarian steroid concentration at the time of artificial insemination in ewes
- Source :
- Reproductive Biology. 14:234-237
- Publication Year :
- 2014
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2014.
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Abstract
- The purpose of this study was to investigate whether fertile or non-fertile inseminations (AI) in synchronized ewes are correlated with the electrical resistance of cervical mucus (ERCM) and the ovarian steroid concentration. AIs were performed either at fixed-time (group A) or after estrus detection (group B). Retrospective analysis revealed that at AI, pregnant ewes had lower ERCM values and progesterone concentrations than non-pregnant ones (p < 0.05). It appears that ERCM may be used as an additional index for fertility enhancement of inseminated ewes.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Time Factors
medicine.medical_treatment
Radioimmunoassay
Down-Regulation
Andrology
Endocrinology
Pregnancy
Internal medicine
Electric Impedance
medicine
Retrospective analysis
Animals
Ovarian steroid
Insemination, Artificial
Progesterone
Sheep, Domestic
Estradiol
Greece
business.industry
Artificial insemination
Ovary
Estrus synchronization
Cervical mucus
Cervix Mucus
Linear Models
Estrus Detection
Female
Animal Science and Zoology
Estrus Synchronization
business
Animals, Inbred Strains
Developmental Biology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 1642431X
- Volume :
- 14
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Reproductive Biology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....b039ea6f6d6f619ea10f828ef10fe283