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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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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, Yi DING, Teketay WASSIE, Hai-jing JING, Sohail AHMED, Gui-qiong LIU, Xun-ping JIANG   +6 more
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Electroencephalography Can Distinguish between Pain and Anaesthetic Intervention in Conscious Lambs Undergoing Castration

Animals, 2020
Australian sheep routinely undergo painful surgical husbandry procedures without anaesthesia or analgesia. Electroencephalography (EEG) has been shown to be a successful measure of pain in livestock under a general anaesthetic.
Charissa Harris, Peter John White, Virginia L. Mohler, Sabrina Lomax   +3 more
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Topical anaesthesia reduces sensitivity of castration wounds in neonatal piglets. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2017
The aim of this study was to do determine the efficacy of the topical anaesthetic Tri-Solfen® in the amelioration of the pain of castration in piglets.
Sabrina Lomax, Charissa Harris, Peter A Windsor, Peter J White   +3 more
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Effect of the number of incisions and use of local anesthesia on the physiological indicators of surgically-castrated piglets

International Journal of Veterinary Science and Medicine, 2018
The objective of this study was to determine the effect of local anesthesia and the number of incisions performed on the physiological blood profile of piglets after surgical castration. A total of 60 male piglets were divided into five groups of 12 each,
Efraín Pérez-Pedraza, Daniel Mota-Rojas, Ramiro Ramírez-Necoechea, Isabel Guerrero-Legarreta, Julio Martínez-Burnes, Karina Lezama-García, Patricia Mora-Medina, Marcelino Rosas, Victor Martínez, Miguel González-Lozano   +9 more
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Comparative Analysis of Oxidative Stress Induced by Chemical and Surgical Castration in Male Dogs [PDF]

Veterinary and Comparative Biomedical Research
This study was conducted to investigate the effects of chemical and surgical castration on oxidative stress in male dogs. A total of ten healthy male dogs, aged between 1 and 3 years, were assigned to two distinct groups: Group Surg underwent surgical ...
Dorrin Azari Motlagh, Reza Asadpour, Seyed Hossein Jarolmasjed, Mohammad Hassan Khadem Ansari, Siamak Kazemi Darabadi   +4 more
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S-ketamine and intranasal application: alternatives for the castration of male suckling piglets?

BMC Veterinary Research, 2021
Background The intramuscular injection of ketamine and azaperone was proposed as a suitable anaesthesia for male suckling piglets for surgical castration.
Sabrina Becker, Anna Maier, Saskia Peters, Kathrin Büttner, Gerald Reiner   +4 more
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Long-term Surgical and Chemical Castration Deteriorates Memory Function Through Downregulation of PKA/CREB/BDNF and c-Raf/MEK/ERK Pathways in Hippocampus [PDF]

International Neurourology Journal, 2019
Purpose Goserelin is a drug used for chemical castration. In a rat model, we investigated whether surgical and chemical castration affected memory ability through the protein kinase A (PKA)/cyclic adenosine monophosphate response element-binding protein (
Mal-Soon Shin, Tae-Won Kim, Sang-Seo Park, Il-Gyu Ko, Chang-Ju Kim, Mia Kim, Su Yeon Roh, Kwang Taek Kim, Khae Hawn Kim   +8 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, Stankovic, Branislav, Cincović, Marko, Nakov, Dimitar, Trajchev, Metodija   +4 more
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Effectof Castration on Some Immunological Aspects in Male Albino Rat [PDF]

Benha Veterinary Medical Journal, 2018
The current study aimed to evaluate the effect of surgical and chemical castration on some immunological aspects in adult male albino rats. A total number of forty adult male albino rats weighing 220±20 g and averaging 4 months old were used.
S. M. Habak, M. E. Azab, R. S. Ismail, A. A. Nafeaa   +3 more
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