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Progesterone supplementation in the early luteal phase after artificial insemination improves conception rates in high-producing dairy cows.

This study examines the possible effects on the reproductive performance of high-producing dairy cows of progesterone (P4) given in the early luteal phase (1.55 g of P4), from Days 3 to 5 post-artificial insemination (AI) as compared with the time of pregnancy recognition, from Days 15 to 17 post-AI. Cows in their third day post-AI were alternately assigned on a weekly rotational basis to the foll...

The Occurrence of Subclinical Hypercortisolism and Osteoporosis in Patients with Incidentally Discovered Unilateral and Bilateral Adrenal Tumors.

BACKGROUND: Adrenal incidentalomas (AI) are clinically silent adrenal masses that are detected incidentally during imaging procedures performed for unrelated diseases. The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of sub-clinical hypercortisolism (SH) and associated co-morbidities in patients with unilateral AI (UAI) and bilateral AI (BAI).

Transforming Growth Factor β1 (TGF-β1) in the Sera of Postmenopausal Osteoporotic Females.

BACKGROUND: Postmenopausal osteoporosis is a major cause of morbidity in postmenopausal females. Transforming growth factor β1 (TGF-β1) and interleuki...

Advancing the Strategic Messages Affecting Robot Trust Effect: The Dynamic of User- and Robot-Generated Content on Human-Robot Trust and Interaction Outcomes.

Human-robot interaction (HRI) will soon transform and shift the communication landscape such that people exchange messages with robots. However, succe...

Prediction of selective estrogen receptor beta agonist using open data and machine learning approach.

BACKGROUND: Estrogen receptors (ERs) are nuclear transcription factors that are involved in the regulation of many complex physiological processes in ...

Automatic detection of osteoporosis based on hybrid genetic swarm fuzzy classifier approaches.

OBJECTIVES: This study proposed a new automated screening system based on a hybrid genetic swarm fuzzy (GSF) classifier using digital dental panoramic...

Overweight postmenopausal women with different plasma estradiol concentrations present with a similar pattern of energy expenditure and substrate oxidation rate before and after a fatty meal challenge.

Menopause-related withdrawal of ovarian estrogens is associated with reduced energy metabolism and overall impairment of substrate oxidation. Estradio...

Artificial Intelligence for the Evaluation of Operational Parameters Influencing Nitrification and Nitrifiers in an Activated Sludge Process.

Nitrification at a full-scale activated sludge plant treating municipal wastewater was monitored over a period of 237 days. A combination of fluoresce...

Support vector regression to estimate the permeability enhancement of potential transdermal enhancers.

OBJECTIVES: Searching for chemicals that will safely enhance transdermal drug delivery is a significant challenge. This study applies support vector r...

A high response to controlled ovarian stimulation induces premature luteinization with a negative impact on pregnancy outcomes in a gonadotropin-releasing hormone antagonist cycle.

OBJECTIVE: The goal of this study was to investigate the relationship between serum progesterone (P4) levels on the day of human chorionic gonadotropi...

Progesterone supplementation during the time of pregnancy recognition after artificial insemination improves conception rates in high-producing dairy cows.

This study examines the possible effects of progesterone (P4) supplementation during the time of pregnancy recognition, from Days 15 to 17 post-artifi...

Serum profile of cytokines interferon gamma and interleukin-10 in ewes subjected to artificial insemination by cervical retraction.

This study evaluated the influence of artificial insemination (AI) by cervical retraction (CRI) on serum levels of interferon gamma (IFNγ) and interle...

Alterations in bone morphogenetic protein 15, growth differentiation factor 9, and gene expression in granulosa cells in preovulatory follicles of dairy cows given porcine LH.

In a previous work, using porcine LH (pLH) in lieu of GnRH for synchronizing ovulation in dairy cows improved pregnancy rates without increasing plasm...

Automatic Estimation of Osteoporotic Fracture Cases by Using Ensemble Learning Approaches.

Ensemble learning methods are one of the most powerful tools for the pattern classification problems. In this paper, the effects of ensemble learning ...

Insulin improves in vitro survival of equine preantral follicles enclosed in ovarian tissue and reduces reactive oxygen species production after culture.

This study investigated the effect of insulin concentration on the in vitro culture of equine preantral follicles enclosed in ovarian tissue. Ovarian ...

Comparative efficacy of different estrus synchronization protocols on estrus induction response, fertility and plasma progesterone and biochemical profile in crossbred anestrus cows.

AIM: To evaluate estrus induction response and fertility including plasma progesterone and biochemical profile following use of three standard hormona...

Clomiphene Citrate Effectively Increases Testosterone in Obese, Young, Hypogonadal Men.

BACKGROUND: Obesity has been associated with low testosterone (T) in adult males and in pubertal boys. Therapy for hypogonadism with exogenous T may l...

Changes in brain ribonuclease (BRB) messenger RNA in granulosa cells (GCs) of dominant vs subordinate ovarian follicles of cattle and the regulation of BRB gene expression in bovine GCs.

Brain ribonuclease (BRB) is a member of the ribonuclease A superfamily that is constitutively expressed in a range of tissues and is the functional ho...

Defective secretion of Prostaglandin F2α during development of idiopathic persistent corpus luteum in mares.

Five mares that developed idiopathic persistent corpus luteum (PCL) were compared with 5 mares with apparently normal interovulatory intervals (IOIs)....

Neural-Network Scoring Functions Identify Structurally Novel Estrogen-Receptor Ligands.

The magnitude of the investment required to bring a drug to the market hinders medical progress, requiring hundreds of millions of dollars and years o...