Dairy cows – an opportunity in the research field of non-genetic inheritance?

More than 1 billion cattle are raised annually for meat and milk production. Dairy cows are repeatedly impregnated and separated from their calves, usually within the first 24 h after birth. Here, I suggest that dairy cows undergo a procedure comparable to the ‘Maternal separation combined with unpr...

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Autor principal: Engmann, Olivia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2018
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Perspectives
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6049035/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30034822
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/eep/dvy014
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description More than 1 billion cattle are raised annually for meat and milk production. Dairy cows are repeatedly impregnated and separated from their calves, usually within the first 24 h after birth. Here, I suggest that dairy cows undergo a procedure comparable to the ‘Maternal separation combined with unpredictable maternal stress’ paradigm (MSUS), which is used to study the non-genetic inheritance (NGI) of phenotypes in rodents. I discuss what research on dairy cows may bring to the research field of NGI. The resulting research findings are likely to have benefits to our understanding of MSUS, NGI and consumer safety.
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spelling pubmed-60490352018-07-20 Dairy cows – an opportunity in the research field of non-genetic inheritance? Engmann, Olivia Environ Epigenet Perspectives More than 1 billion cattle are raised annually for meat and milk production. Dairy cows are repeatedly impregnated and separated from their calves, usually within the first 24 h after birth. Here, I suggest that dairy cows undergo a procedure comparable to the ‘Maternal separation combined with unpredictable maternal stress’ paradigm (MSUS), which is used to study the non-genetic inheritance (NGI) of phenotypes in rodents. I discuss what research on dairy cows may bring to the research field of NGI. The resulting research findings are likely to have benefits to our understanding of MSUS, NGI and consumer safety. Oxford University Press 2018-07-16 /pmc/articles/PMC6049035/ /pubmed/30034822 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/eep/dvy014 Text en © The Author(s) 2018. Published by Oxford University Press. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6049035/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30034822
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/eep/dvy014
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