Sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and
zymography were used in two separate experiments to determine the tissue
source and type of plasminogen activator (PA) produced by bovine
blastocysts. Twelve-14 d blastocysts were collected at slaughter from
estrous synchronized, superovulated and artificially inseminated Holstein
cows. In Experiment I, blastocysts were...
Cystic ovarian disease (COD) is an anovulatory condition in cattle
that afflicts between 6-18% of all dairy cows in the US. Ovulation is
dependent on the plasminogen activator (PA) family of proteases
and protease inhibitor for proteolysis, culminating in follicular rupture.
Failure of the follicle to ovulate suggests an aberration...
Milk fever (MF), retained placenta (RP), and left displaced abomasum (LDA) are three common and costly metabolic diseases in cows during the first days of lactation. Some studies suggest that circulating concentrations of α-tocopherol (ATOC) are decreased by these three diseases. It is, however, unknown if and how long lower...
This research investigated gene expression in the canine placenta during the peripartum period. Previous studies have recognized molecular changes that occur in the placenta around the time of placental release in other species, but no study has looked at gene expression in the late gestation canine placenta. Of particular significance...
This paper introduces a class of k-nearest neighbor (k-NN) estimators called bipartite plug-in (BPI) estimators for estimating integrals of non-linear functions of a probability density, such as Shannon entropy and R´enyi entropy. The density is assumed to be smooth, have bounded support, and be uniformly bounded from below on this...