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Effect of Immunocastration and Diet on Growth Performance, Serum Metabolites and Sex Hormones, Reproductive Organ Development and Carcass Quality of Heavy Gilts

Animals, 2021
It is desirable to increase fatness in gilts destined for Teruel dry-cured ham production. A total of 192 Duroc × (Landrace × Large White) gilts of 40.3 ± 4.80 kg body weight (BW) were used to assess the impact of immunocastration and feeding on growth ...
Leticia Pérez-Ciria, Francisco Javier Miana-Mena, María Victoria Falceto, Olga Mitjana, Maria Angeles Latorre   +4 more
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Reproductive and Behavioral Evaluation of a New Immunocastration Dog Vaccine [PDF]

Animals, 2020
Canine immunocastration development has been of interest for many years as a complementary strategy to surgical castration. The purpose of this paper was to verify the effect of a recombinant vaccine for dog immunocastration. Two tests were done, one under controlled conditions and a second under field conditions. Animals were injected with 1 mL of 500
Daniela Siel, María José Ubilla, Sonia Vidal, Alexandra Loaiza, John Quiroga, Federico Cifuentes, Timothy Hardman, Lisette Lapierre, Rodolfo Paredes, Leonardo Sáenz   +9 more
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Impact of Housing Condition on Welfare and Behavior of Immunocastrated Fattening Pigs (Sus scrofa domestica)

Animals, 2021
The aim of this study was to investigate whether the well-known positive effects of immunocastration on the behavior and welfare of pigs persist under varying environments.
Linda Steybe, Kevin Kress, Sonja Schmucker, Volker Stefanski   +3 more
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Immunocastration of Male Pigs – Situation Today

Procedia Food Science, 2015
AbstractImmunological castration of male pigs is an attractive alternative to surgical castration and nowadays is increasingly used in many countries to reduce boar taint and improve pork quality. Moreover, immunocastrated pigs showed reduced sexual and aggressive behaviour compared to entire male pigs, thus improving animal welfare.
Zamaratskaia, Galia, Rasmussen, Martin Krøyer; id_orcid 0000-0002-1889-2874   +1 more
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Differential expression and co-expression gene networks reveal candidate biomarkers of boar taint in non-castrated pigs [PDF]

, 2017
Boar taint (BT) is an offensive odour or taste observed in pork from a proportion of non-castrated male pigs. Surgical castration is effective in avoiding BT, but animal welfare issues have created an incentive for alternatives such as genomic selection.
Do, Duy N., Drag, Markus, Kadarmideen, Haja N., Kogelman, Lisette J. A., Skinkyté-Juskiené, Ruta   +4 more
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The effect of immunocastration on adipose tissue deposition and composition in pigs

animal, 2021
Immunocastrated pigs (IC) exhibit intensive fat deposition after immunisation, but the underlying mechanisms of intensified fat metabolism and deposition are not yet fully understood. Moreover, there is also a lack of comparative studies performed on IC, entire males (EM) and surgical castrates (SC).
K. Poklukar, M. Čandek-Potokar, M. Vrecl, N. Batorek-Lukač, G. Fazarinc, K. Kress, U. Weiler, V. Stefanski, M. Škrlep   +8 more
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Regulation of 3β-Hydroxysteroid Dehydrogenase/∆5-∆4 Isomerase: A Review [PDF]

, 2013
This review focuses on the expression and regulation of 3β-hydroxysteroi ddehydrogenase/Δ5-Δ4 isomerase (3β-HSD), with emphasis on the porcine version. 3β-HSD is often associated with steroidogenesis, but its function in the metabolism of both steroids ...
Abbaszade, Banner, Belanger, Beltowski, Benton, Berchtold, Bo Ekstrand, Brunius, Catalfo, Chapman, Chedrese, Chen, Chen, Cherradi, Clark, Coniglio, Conley, Conley, Conley, Cooke, Couet, Coulter, Cue, Davis, De Launoit, Doran, Doran, Dorgan, Dupont, Fink-Gremmels, Furster, Furster, Galarreta, Galia Zamaratskaia, Garrett, Garrett, Gingras, Gingras, Gromadzka-Ostrowska, Haider, Hassan, Havelock, Headon, Hierlihy, Hild-Petito, Hoog, Hu, Joernvall, Kallberg, Kaynard, Keeney, Keeney, Kershaw, Kiessling, Kostic, Kozlowska, Kumar, Labelle-Dumais, Labrie, LaVoie, Leers-Sucheta, Li, Liang, Lorence, Majdic, Martin, Martin Rasmussen, Mason, Mason, Matsunaga, Mcallister, Meadus, Mizrachi, Mode, Mullany, Nakajin, Nakamura, Naville, Nicolau-Solano, Papacleovoulou, Park, Payne, Payne, Payne, Pelletier, Penning, Picon, Rasmussen, Rasmussen, Rasmussen, Rasmussen, Saez, Samuels, Sasano, Sauer, Shapiro, Siiteri, Simard, Simard, Sirianni, Sordoillet, Stayrook, Sun, Suzuki, Takikawa, Takikawa, Tang, The, Tomankova, Tremblay, Val, Von Teichman, Walstra, Wang, Waxman, Waxman, Wong, Yuan, Zamaratskaia, Zamaratskaia, Zhao, Zinedine   +121 more
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Bones, reproductive organs and carcass characteristics of entire, early and late immunocastrated male pigs

Animal
Immunocastration has been introduced in pig production in order to combine the reduction of undesired characteristics of meat and improvement of animal welfare with achieving the highest possible production results.
I. Božičković, D. Radojković, R. Savić, M. Popovac, A. Brun, J. Soler, R. Lizardo, M. Font-i-Furnols   +7 more
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Exploratory Survey on European Consumer and Stakeholder Attitudes towards Alternatives for Surgical Castration of Piglets

Animals, 2020
Surgical castration of piglets without pain relief is still common practice in many countries. Possible alternatives for surgical castration are application of pain relief or anaesthesia or production of boars (entire males) and immunocastrates.
Marijke Aluwé, Evert Heyrman, João M. Almeida, Jakub Babol, Gianni Battacone, Jaroslav Čítek, Maria Font i Furnols, Andriy Getya, Danijel Karolyi, Eliza Kostyra, Kevin Kress, Goran Kušec, Daniel Mörlein, Anastasia Semenova, Martin Škrlep, Todor Stoyanchev, Igor Tomašević, Liliana Tudoreanu, Maren Van Son, Sylwia Żakowska-Biemans, Galia Zamaratskaia, Alice Van den Broeke, Macarena Egea   +22 more
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Influence of Immunocastration on Slaughter Traits and Boar Taint Compounds in Pigs Originating from Three Different Terminal Sire Lines

Animals, 2021
The aim of the research was to investigate the influence of terminal sire line (TSL) and male category (MC) on carcass and meat quality of commercial fatteners. The study was performed on 180 pigs originating from three terminal sire lines: A (Pietrain ×
Ivona Djurkin Kušec, Emilija Cimerman, Martin Škrlep, Danijel Karolyi, Kristina Gvozdanović, Miodrag Komlenić, Žarko Radišić, Goran Kušec   +7 more
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