CONTROL OF PIG REPRODUCTION

By V. DIZAA

CONTENTS PHYSIOLOGICAL ROLES OF THE BOAR EJACULATE THE PHYSIOLOGICAL ROLES OF THE BOAR EJACULATE MOLECULAR KINETICS OF PROTEINS AT THE SURFACE OF PORCINE SPERM BEFORE AND DURING FERTILIZATION OPTIMAL CHARACTERISTICS OF SPERMATOZOA FOR SEMEN TECHNOLOGIES IN PIGS RECENT ADVANCES IN BOAR SEMEN CRYOPRESERVATION FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS IN SWINE AI SELECTION FOR BOAR FERTILITY AND SEMEN QUALITY - THE WAY AHEAD CHANGES IN RESPONSIVENESS TO BICARBONATE UNDER CAPACITATING CONDITIONS IN LIQUID PRESERVED BOAR SPERMATOZOA IN VITRO INTRAUTERINE INSEMINATION OF SOWS BY USING A TWO-CHAMBER SEMEN BAG SYSTEM BINDING OF PORCINE SPERMATOZOA TO UTERINE EPITHELIAL CELLS MODULATES THE FEMALE IMMUNE RESPONSE AND MIGHT INDICATE THE FORMATION OF A PRE-OVIDUCTAL SPERM RESERVOIR SPERM SURVIVAL FOLLOWING COLLOID CENTRIFUGATION VARIES ACCORDING TO THE PART OF THE SPERM-RICH FRACTION USED STATE OF THE ART IN -OMIC BIOLOGY OF SWINE THE ROLE OF GENE DISCOVERY, QTL ANALYSES AND GENE EXPRESSION IN REPRODUCTIVE TRAITS IN THE PIG PROTEOMIC ANALYSIS OF MAMMALIAN GAMETES AND SPERM-OOCYTE INTERACTIONS MAPPING QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI FOR REPRODUCTION IN PIGS GLOBAL PROTEIN PROFILING OF PORCINE CUMULUS CELLS IN RESPONSE TO NATIVE OOCYTE SECRETED FACTORS IN VITRO MATURATION OF THE PRE-OVULATORY FOLLICLE NUTRITIONAL AND LACTATIONAL EFFECTS ON FOLLICULAR DEVELOPMENT IN THE PIG APPEARANCE, FATE AND UTILIZATION OF ABNORMAL PORCINE EMBRYOS PRODUCED BY IN VITRO MATURATION AND FERTILIZATION INTRA-FOLLICULAR REGULATORY MECHANISMS IN THE PORCINE OVARY TRANSCRIPTIONAL, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL AND EPIGENETIC CONTROL OF PORCINE OOCYTE MATURATION AND EMBRYOGENESIS MANAGEMENT OF OVARIAN ACTIVITY IN SWINE OVARIAN RESPONSES TO LACTATION MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES STUDIES ON FIXED-TIME OVULATION INDUCTION IN THE PIG POST-WEANING ALTRENOGEST TREATMENT IN PRIMIPAROUS SOWS; THE EFFECT OF DURATION AND DOSAGE ON FOLLICULAR DEVELOPMENT AND CONSEQUENCES FOR EARLY PREGNANCY ASSESSMENT OF FOLLICLE POPULATION CHANGES IN SOWS FROM DAY OF WEANING AND DURING ESTRUS USING REAL-TIME ULTRASOUND BREAKING SCIENCE IN PIG REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY TEMPORAL CANDIDATE GENE EXPRESSION PATTERNS IN THE SOW PLACENTA DURING EARLY GESTATION AND THE EFFECT OF MATERNAL L-ARGININE SUPPLEMENTATION FT ESTROGEN AND INTERLEUKIN-1? REGULATION OF TROPHININ, OSTEOPONTIN, CYCLOOXYGENASE-1, CYCLOOXYGENASE-2, AND INTERLEUKIN-1ß SYSTEM IN THE PORCINE UTERUS PROTEOMIC STUDY TO IDENTIFY FACTORS IN FOLLICULAR FLUID AND/OR SERUM INVOLVED IN IN VITRO CUMULUS EXPANSION OF PORCINE OOCYTES IMPACT OF SELECTION FOR UTERINE CAPACITY ON THE PLACENTAL TRANSCRIPTOME ENRICHMENT OF PORCINE SPERMATOGONIA BY DIFFERENTIAL CULTURE CLONING AND EXPRESSION OF PLURIPOTENT FACTORS AROUND THE TIME OF GASTRULATION IN THE PORCINE CONCEPTUS CONTROL OF PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT PRENATAL PROGRAMMING OF POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE PIG CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR EVENTS IN EARLY AND MID GESTATION PORCINE IMPLANTATION SITES A REVIEW FUNCTIONAL GENOMIC APPROACHES FOR THE STUDY OF FETAL/PLACENTAL DEVELOPMENT IN SWINE WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON IMPRINTED GENES ­ DEVELOPMENT OF THE PIG PLACENTA BREEDING MANAGEMENT PROGRAMS FOR THE FUTURE GROWTH, BODY STATE AND BREEDING PERFORMANCE IN GILTS AND PRIMIPAROUS SOWS GENETIC SELECTION FOR LIFETIME REPRODUCTIVE PERFORMANCE RESPONSES TO EXOGENOUS GONADOTROPHIN TREATMENT IN CONTEMPORARY WEANED SOWS BENEFITS OF SYNCHRONIZING OVULATION WITH PORCINE LUTEINIZING HORMONE (PLH) IN A FIXED TIME INSEMINATION PROTOCOL IN WEANED MULTIPAROUS SOWS STATE-OF-THE ART IN CONCEPTUS-UTERUS INTERACTIONS/EARLY PREGNANCY SIGNALING ANTILUTEOLYTIC MECHANISMS AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF PREGNANCY IN THE PIG CONCEPTUS-UTERUS INTERACTIONS IN PIGS: ENDOMETRIAL GENE EXPRESSION IN RESPONSE TO ESTROGENS AND INTERFERONS FROM CONCEPTUSES EFFECT OF PROGESTERONE ANTAGONIST RU486 ON UTERINE PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR MRNA EXPRESSION, EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT AND OVARIAN FUNCTION DURING EARLY PREGNANCY IN PIGS SELECT NUTRIENTS AND GLUCOSE TRANSPORTERS IN PIG UTERI AND CONCEPTUSES