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Pros and Cons of Alternatives to Piglet Castration: Welfare, Boar Taint, and Other Meat Quality Traits

Animals, 2019
This paper reviews the pros and cons of various alternatives to the surgical castration of male piglets without pain relief. Castration is mostly motivated by the presence of boar taint in the meat from some entire male pigs.
Michel Bonneau, Ulrike Weiler
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Effect of knife castration on leukocyte cytokine expression and indicators of stress, pain, and inflammation in Korean cattle bull calves [PDF]

Animal Bioscience, 2023
Objective This study investigated the effects of surgical castration on behavior, physiological and inflammatory indicators, and leukocyte cytokine mRNA levels in Korean cattle bull calves. Methods Nineteen Korean cattle bull calves (average body weight,
Seonpil Yoo, Seok-Hyun Beak, Hyeok Joong Kang, Da Jin Sol Jung, Dilla Mareistia Fassah, InHyuk Jeong, Seung Ju Park, Md Najmul Haque, Myunghoo Kim, Myunggi Baik   +9 more
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Effect of short-term fattening period and castration method on productivity, serum testosterone, and economic efficacy in Hanwoo cattle

Journal of Animal Science and Technology, 2023
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of castration method and short-term fattening periods on Hanwoo cattle. Thirty-two Hanwoo calves (average body weight: 148.4 ± 19.8 kg) were used.
Jun Sang Ahn, Eung Gi Kwon, Hyun Jeong Lee, Ui Hyung Kim, Jeong Il Won, Sun Sik Jang, Byung Ki Park   +6 more
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Lutetium-177-PSMA-617 for Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer.

New England Journal of Medicine, 2021
BACKGROUND Metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer remains fatal despite recent advances. Prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) is highly expressed in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.
O. Sartor, J. D. de Bono, K. Chi, K. Fizazi, K. Herrmann, K. Rahbar, S. Tagawa, L. Nordquist, N. Vaishampayan, G. El-Haddad, Chandler Park, T. Beer, A. Armour, Wendy J Pérez-Contreras, M. Desilvio, E. Kpamegan, G. Gericke, R. Messmann, M. Morris, B. Krause   +19 more
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An investigation of the use of ethyl chloride and meloxicam to decrease the pain associated with a single or double incision method of castration in piglets

Frontiers in Pain Research, 2023
Castration is a stressful and painful procedure that can impact swine welfare negatively. The objectives of this study were to (1) evaluate the effect of one incision compared to two incisions and the use of a topical vapocoolant (VAPO; ethyl chloride; a
Arlene Garcia, Mhairi Sutherland, Gizell Vasquez, Adrian Quintana, Garrett Thompson, Jemma Willis, Shelbie Chandler, Kiran Niure, John McGlone   +8 more
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Efficacy of inguinal buffered lidocaine and intranasal flunixin meglumine on mitigating physiological and behavioral responses to pain in castrated piglets

Frontiers in Pain Research, 2023
Managing castration pain on US sow farms is hindered by the lack of Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved products for mitigating pain. Previous work assessing flunixin meglumine (FM) efficacy in mitigating castration pain has shown the drug to be ...
Magdiel Lopez-Soriano, Victoria Rocha Merenda, Stephanie Anderson, Pedro Henrique Esteves Trindade, Martin S. Leidig, Kristen Messenger, Juliana Bonin Ferreira, Monique Danielle Pairis-Garcia   +7 more
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Apalutamide in Patients With Metastatic Castration-Sensitive Prostate Cancer: Final Survival Analysis of the Randomized, Double-Blind, Phase III TITAN Study

Journal of Clinical Oncology, 2021
PURPOSE The first interim analysis of the phase III, randomized, placebo-controlled TITAN study showed that apalutamide significantly improved overall survival (OS) and radiographic progression-free survival in patients with metastatic castration ...
K. Chi, S. Chowdhury, A. Bjartell, B. Chung, A. J. Pereira de Santana Gomes, R. Given, Á. Juárez Soto, A. Merseburger, M. Özgüroğlu, H. Uemura, D. Ye, S. Brookman-May, S. Mundle, S. McCarthy, J. Larsen, Weili Sun, K. Bevans, Ke Zhang, N. Bandyopadhyay, N. Agarwal   +19 more
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Evaluation of the subcapsular technique for primary closure castration in donkeys (Equus asinus)

Scientific Reports, 2021
This study described the subcapsular technique for primary closure castration in donkeys with special regard to its efficiency and welfare impacts. The study was conducted on twelve adult male donkeys, allocated randomly into two groups; subcapsular ...
Ahmed Ibrahim, Usama T. Mahmoud, Magda M. Ali, Sohair M. M. Ragab   +3 more
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A systematic review on urolithiasis in small ruminants according to nutrition-dependent prevalence and outcome after surgery [PDF]

Veterinary World, 2022
Background and Aim: Obstructive urolithiasis is a common disease in small ruminants with fatal outcomes if left untreated. Many methods have been established; however, long-term success rates remain unsatisfactory.
Marlene Sickinger, Anita Windhorst
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Olaparib for Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer.

New England Journal of Medicine, 2020
BACKGROUND Multiple loss-of-function alterations in genes that are involved in DNA repair, including homologous recombination repair, are associated with response to poly(adenosine diphosphate-ribose) polymerase (PARP) inhibition in patients with ...
J. D. de Bono, J. Mateo, K. Fizazi, F. Saad, N. Shore, S. Sandhu, K. Chi, O. Sartor, N. Agarwal, D. Olmos, A. Thiery-Vuillemin, P. Twardowski, N. Mehra, C. Goessl, Jinyu Kang, J. Burgents, Wenting Wu, A. Kohlmann, C. Adelman, M. Hussain   +19 more
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