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Surgical Castration of Subadult Giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis)
Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine, 2009Surgical castration of giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis) has not been commonly performed. Large domestic animal castration has a significant complication rate that includes postoperative mortality. Documentation of castration techniques and complications in large domestic animals occurs regularly.
Rose, Borkowski +4 more
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Influences of surgical castration on the thymus of male rats
Journal of Reproductive Immunology, 1999In previous studies, we have shown that castration of Sprague-Dawley rats enhances thymic weight through puberty whilst sex steroids reduce the castration-induced hypertrophy. In the current study, we have confirmed that castration enhances thymic growth compared to age-matched intact controls.
K F, Windmill, V W, Lee
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Stress in calves castrated surgically or by the application of rubber rings
Australian Veterinary Journal, 1986SUMMARY The effects of castration were studied in calves 4 to 11 weeks of age, using increases in salivary cortisol as an indicator of stress. Groups were castrated surgically or by rubber ring application or were non‐castrated (control) females. The surgically castrated group showed more agitation during the operation, but both castrated groups ...
L R, Fell, R, Wells, D A, Shutt
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Surgical castration of the male common hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius)
Theriogenology, 2014In a prospective, clinical, surgery study we report here for the first time, in detail, on the surgical castration of 10 captive adult male common hippopotami (Hippopotamus amphibius). The successful procedures, a species-specific modification of standard equine castration techniques, provide valuable insight into the spatially dynamic nature of the ...
Chris, Walzer +5 more
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Surgical Sterilization in Small Mammals: Spay and Castration
Veterinary Clinics of North America: Exotic Animal Practice, 2000The intrinsic physiologic and anatomic differences between small exotic mammals and the species that are more familiar to veterinary practitioners (i.e., dogs and cats) are substantial. This discussion is limited to rabbits, mice and rats (murid rodents), hamsters and gerbils (cricetid rodents), and guinea pigs and chinchillas (hystricomorph rodents ...
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Epidemiology of surgical castration of dogs and cats in the United States
Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, 2011Abstract Objective—To estimate the prevalence of surgical castration among dogs and cats evaluated at private US veterinary hospitals and to determine the influence of sex, age, breed, geographic location, and prepaid wellness plan enrollment on the likelihood of castration. Design—Retrospective period prevalence study.
Rosalie, Trevejo +2 more
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Intratesticular lidocaine reduces the response to surgical castration in dogs
Veterinary Anaesthesia and Analgesia, 2013To investigate whether intratesticular injection of lidocaine pre-surgery would reduce the intraoperative responses to elective castration in dogs.Double-blinded, randomized, controlled, prospective clinical study.Forty-two client-owned dogs weighing 2.2-38.4 kg and aged between 4.5 and 56 months.Group L dogs received an intratesticular injection of 2%
Vilhelmiina, Huuskonen +3 more
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Surgical Castration and Sexual Recidivism Risk
2016A review of the literature related to castrated sex offenders is provided as a backdrop to the relevance of bilateral orchiectomy in risk assessment among sexually violent predatory offenders. Data from difficult-to-obtain reports and older studies are summarized as well as their methodological limitations.
Shoba Sreenivasan, Linda E. Weinberger
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Surgical castration, Texas law and the case of Mr T
Journal of Medical Ethics, 2014Persons who commit crimes involving sexual abuse of children exploit their victims in several ways. Sex offenders use their power and authority over vulnerable children to whom they have easy access. Teachers, coaches, clergy, family members and childcare workers have been exposed as sex offenders.
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METHYL TESTOSTERONE AND SURGICAL CASTRATION IN THE TREATMENT OF CARCINOMA OF THE BREAST
The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, 1946THE concept of “medical” castration has gained considerable attention in the therapy of carcinoma of the prostate, but a similar application of androgenic hormones to the “medical” castration of the female suffering from carcinoma of the breast has been given very little clinical trial.
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