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Surgical Castration of Piglets – Challenges and Alternatives – A Review

Annals of Animal Science
Abstract The European Declaration on Alternatives to Surgical Castration of Pigs stipulated that from 2012, surgical castration could only be performed using anesthetics and/or analgesics, and that it would be completely abandoned by 2018. Many Member States disagreed with the conditions set out in the Declaration.
Anna Zalewska, Martyna Batorska, Justyna Więcek, Anna Rekiel, Marcin Sońta   +4 more
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Qualitative behavioural assessment of Bos indicus cattle following surgical castration [PDF]

, 2017
Surgical castration of cattle is common however providing analgesia in the Australian cattle industry is rare. The aims of this study were to: 1) describe the behaviour of cattle postcastration using quantitative and qualitative methodology and 2 ...
Vindevoghel, Thinza
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Self-Administration of Meloxicam via Medicated Molasses Lick Blocks May Improve Welfare of Castrated Calves

Animals
The self-administration of meloxicam via medicated feed is a novel concept that could enable non-invasive, pre-emptive and long-term analgesia. Forty Bos taurus male calves were randomly allocated to four treatment groups: no castration (PC), surgical ...
Samantha Rudd, Sabrina Lomax, Peter J. White, Dominique Van der Saag   +3 more
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Effects of neonatal surgical castration and immunocastration in male pigs on blood T lymphocytes and health markers

Animal, 2014
Surgical castration in pig husbandry is criticized for welfare reasons. Thus, it is necessary to evaluate alternative ways of rearing male pigs, such as entire or immunocastrated animals.
C. Leclercq, A. Prunier, E. Merlot
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Evaluation of the effect of surgical and immunological castration of male pigs on boar taint compounds in oral fluid and fat tissue by LC-MS/MS method

Journal of Veterinary Research, 2020
An effective way of preventing undesirable boar taint in pork meat caused by the presence of androstenone, skatole and indole is surgical castration of piglets. This, however, arouses growing social opposition.
Woźniak Barbara, Cybulski Piotr, Jabłoński Artur, Witek Sebastian, Matraszek-Żuchowska Iwona   +4 more
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Vaccination against boar taint – an alternative to surgical castration without anaesthesia in pigs [PDF]

, 2013
In 2012, about 1.3 million boars were surgically castrated, most of them without anaesthesia. Castration is performed to avoid the occurrence of boar taint and aggressive and sexual behaviour.
Ahlström, Therese
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THE USE OF MODERN ANALOGUES OF LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASING HORMONE IN THE HORMONAL THERAPY IN PATIENTS WITH PROSTATE CANCER

Исследования и практика в медицине, 2017
The urgency of the problem of prostate cancer (PC) remains extremely high due to the continued growth of morbidity and mortality from this disease. Despite the introduction of diagnostics with the use of prostate specific antigen (PSA) and the increase ...
E. Yu. Safronova, A. A. Krasheninnikov, S. A. Sergienko, A. A. Kostin   +3 more
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Surgical castration in large dogs: is closed castration safer than open?

Veterinary Evidence
PICO Question In large dogs weighing more than 20 kg undergoing elective orchidectomy, does a closed castration technique result in fewer postoperative complications than an open castration technique?   Clinical bottom line Category of research
Florine Morrison
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Affordable and underutilized: the paradox of surgical castration

Translational Andrology and Urology, 2022
Gatsinga, Rene, Chen, Weiren, Chen, Kenneth, Tay, Kae Jack, Yuen, John S. P., Tan, Yu Guang   +5 more
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Extent and pattern of symptom relief following surgical castration in patients with advanced prostate cancer treated at a tertiary referral hospital in Tanzania: a prospective cohort study

BMC Surgery
Background Advanced prostate cancer leads to many symptoms, notably bone pain and lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTs); however, the degree and duration of pain relief, changes in LUTs severity and underlying factors associated with the extent of symptom ...
Charles John Nhungo, Victor Patrick Sensa, Fransia Arda Mushi, Amini Mitamo Alexandre, Kimu Marko Njiku, Ally Hamis Mwanga, Obadia Venance Nyongole, Alan Paciorek, Charles A. Mkony   +8 more
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