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 +9 more
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Surgical Castration Changes Struggle Behavior and Vocalizations in Male Piglets
, 2021 This study assessed acute pain in piglets during castration through behavioral indicators. Piglets (n=88) were randomly allocated to one of two treatments: surgical castration and sham-castration.
Maria Lou (17248345) +3 more
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Recent advances in immunocastration in sheep and goat and its animal welfare benefits: A review
Journal of Integrative Agriculture, 2022 Castration of male animals is a common practice in the meat industry aimed at reducing aggressive behavior, preventing unpleasant flavor, and controlling undesirable breeding.
Fan-mei ZENG +6 more
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Consumers’ awareness of piglet castration and attitudes towards alternatives to surgical castration: results from North Macedonia [PDF]
, 2022 One of the most challenging welfare problem in pig production is surgical castration of male piglets without the use of anesthesia and analgesia. Farmers in North Macedonia are traditionally castrated their male piglets surgically unanesthetized in the ...
Hristov, Slavca +4 more
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Offering surgical castration to detainee sex-offenders: The ‘unkindest cut’ [PDF]
, 2020 The still available in some jurisdictions offer of surgical castration to sex-offenders raises ethical concerns. The narrow castration law in Texas has found supporters since it does not mandate castration, instead reserving it for repeat offenders who ...
Voultsos, Polychronis
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Legal aspects of surgical castration
, 2010 The use of surgical castration, whilst still legal in some European countries is now being practised only on a very small scale. This is largely due to the fact that many people have objections to the practice of surgically castrating offenders ...
Harrison, Karen
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Temporal patterns of inflammatory gene expression in local tissues after banding or burdizzo castration in cattle [PDF]
, 2009 peer-reviewedBackground: Castration of male cattle has been shown to elicit inflammatory reactions and acute inflammation is initiated and sustained by the participation of cytokines.
Gath Vivian +9 more
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Sarcopenia and change in body composition following maximal androgen suppression with abiraterone in men with castration-resistant prostate cancer. [PDF]
, 2013 BACKGROUND: Standard medical castration reduces muscle mass. We sought to characterize body composition changes in men undergoing maximal androgen suppression with and without exogenous gluocorticoids.
J S de Bono +32 more
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Response to the Letter to the Editor on the surgical castration of piglets
Animal, 2009 pain relief. In general, anaesthesia does not provide any longterm pain relief. Mischler et al. (1994), however, report a prolonged mild antinociception after CO2-induced anaesthesia. In general, local as well as general anaesthesia should be supplemented with postoperative pain relief.
Gerritzen, M.A. +4 more
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Reproduction of dogs in the tropics [PDF]
, 2006 Dog overpopulation is considered a serious problem in developing countries and a threat to human health. To be successfully implemented, official dog control measures have to be in accordance with regional beliefs and practices of an area.
Ortega-Pacheco, Antonio
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