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Early Pregnancy Diagnosis in Bovines: Current Status and Future Directions
An early and accurate diagnosis of reproductive dysfunctions or aberrations is crucial to better reproductive management in livestock. High reproductive efficiency is a prerequisite for high life-time production in dairy animals. Early pregnancy diagnosis is key to shorten the calving interval throu...
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Hindawi Publishing Corporation
2013
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3870866/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24382949 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/958540 |
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author | Balhara, Ashok K. Gupta, Meenakshi Singh, Surender Mohanty, Ashok K. Singh, Inderjeet |
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description | An early and accurate diagnosis of reproductive dysfunctions or aberrations is crucial to better reproductive management in livestock. High reproductive efficiency is a prerequisite for high life-time production in dairy animals. Early pregnancy diagnosis is key to shorten the calving interval through early identification of open animals and their timely treatment and rebreeding so as to maintain a postpartum barren interval close to 60 days. A buffalo, the most important dairy animal in the Indian subcontinent, is known for problems related to high calving interval, late puberty, and high incidence of anestrus. Lack of reliable cow-side early pregnancy diagnosis methods further aggravates the situation. Several methods of pregnancy diagnosis are being practiced in bovine species, yet none qualifies as the ideal pregnancy diagnosis method due to the inherent limitations of sensitivity, accuracy, specificity, speed, and ease of performing the test. The advancement of molecular techniques like proteomics and their applications in animal research has given a new hope to look for pregnancy biomarker molecules in these animals. This review attempts to examine common pregnancy diagnosis methods available for dairy animals, while assessing the usefulness of the modern technologies in detecting novel pregnancy markers and designing future strategies for research in this area. |
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spelling | pubmed-38708662014-01-01 Early Pregnancy Diagnosis in Bovines: Current Status and Future Directions Balhara, Ashok K. Gupta, Meenakshi Singh, Surender Mohanty, Ashok K. Singh, Inderjeet ScientificWorldJournal Review Article An early and accurate diagnosis of reproductive dysfunctions or aberrations is crucial to better reproductive management in livestock. High reproductive efficiency is a prerequisite for high life-time production in dairy animals. Early pregnancy diagnosis is key to shorten the calving interval through early identification of open animals and their timely treatment and rebreeding so as to maintain a postpartum barren interval close to 60 days. A buffalo, the most important dairy animal in the Indian subcontinent, is known for problems related to high calving interval, late puberty, and high incidence of anestrus. Lack of reliable cow-side early pregnancy diagnosis methods further aggravates the situation. Several methods of pregnancy diagnosis are being practiced in bovine species, yet none qualifies as the ideal pregnancy diagnosis method due to the inherent limitations of sensitivity, accuracy, specificity, speed, and ease of performing the test. The advancement of molecular techniques like proteomics and their applications in animal research has given a new hope to look for pregnancy biomarker molecules in these animals. This review attempts to examine common pregnancy diagnosis methods available for dairy animals, while assessing the usefulness of the modern technologies in detecting novel pregnancy markers and designing future strategies for research in this area. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013-12-05 /pmc/articles/PMC3870866/ /pubmed/24382949 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/958540 Text en Copyright © 2013 Ashok K. Balhara et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Review Article Balhara, Ashok K. Gupta, Meenakshi Singh, Surender Mohanty, Ashok K. Singh, Inderjeet Early Pregnancy Diagnosis in Bovines: Current Status and Future Directions |
title | Early Pregnancy Diagnosis in Bovines: Current Status and Future Directions |
title_full | Early Pregnancy Diagnosis in Bovines: Current Status and Future Directions |
title_fullStr | Early Pregnancy Diagnosis in Bovines: Current Status and Future Directions |
title_full_unstemmed | Early Pregnancy Diagnosis in Bovines: Current Status and Future Directions |
title_short | Early Pregnancy Diagnosis in Bovines: Current Status and Future Directions |
title_sort | early pregnancy diagnosis in bovines: current status and future directions |
topic | Review Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3870866/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24382949 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/958540 |
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