Date: 27 August ‘07; 14:00 - 18:00 hours

Chairperson: M. Vestergaard (DK)

Theatre Session 22

• Maternal nutrition from day 30 to day 80 of pregnancy in singleton bearing ewes increases the lamb birth weight
  Kuran, M., U. Sen, E. Sirin, Y. Aksoy, K. Kilinc and Z. Ulutas
• Leptin, insulin-like growth factor-I and luteinizing hormone secretion and oestrous behaviour in fat-tailed Tuj lambs following ovulation induction using progestagen sponges plus PMSG in non breeding season
  Yildiz, S., O. Ucar, M. Cenesiz, M. Kaya, F. Onder, M. Uzun, D. Blache, M. Blackberry and G.B. Martin
• Effect of dietary polyunsaturated fatty acids on the expression of genes involved in prostaglandin biosynthesis in the bovine uterus
  Waters, S., S. Childs and D. Kenny
• Investigation on alteration in and relationship between thyroid hormones and testosterone in ram plasma during and out of the breeding season
  Alaw, A., A. Seidavi, R. Al-Rekabi and H. Deldar
• A simple modelling approach of regulations in energy partitioning for the lactating female: application to the dairy goat
  Puillet, L., O. Martin, M. Tichit and D. Sauvant
• IGF-1 expression in leukocytes at two ages in growing cattle
  Saprõkina, Z. and A. Karus
• Growth performance of New-Zealand white rabbits fed diets containing different levels of untreated or fungal treated sugar beet pulp
  El-Badawi, A.Y., A.A. Hassan and A.A. Abedo
• Effect of feeding biologically treated corn stalks on plasma prolactin levels in growing rabbits
  El Shahat, A. and A. Morad
   

Poster Session 22

• Evaluation of diet effect on blood redox status and on milk quality and production in lactating cows
  De Rosa, R., L. Ferrara, P. Abrescia, A. Carbone, R. Baculo and M.S. Spagnuolo
• Gene expression of the constitutive nitric oxide synthase (NOS-3) in bovine vas deferens
  Hassanpour, H., G.H. Niknakht Brojeni and A. Mohammad Zade
• Dairy cow energy status in early pregnancy does not affect the reproductive performance of primiparous female progeny
  Berry, D.P., P. Lonergan, S.T. Butler and A.C.O. Evans
• Different changes in postprandial plasma ghrelin and GH levels in wethers fed concentrate or timothy hay
  Takahashi, T., Y. Kobayashi, S. Hasegawa, K. Katoh and Y. Obara
• Effect of maternal undernutrition on the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis function in sheep offspring
  Papadomichelakis, G., B. Kotsampasi, S. Chadio, S. Deligeorgis, D. Kalogiannis, I. Menegatos and G. Zervas
• Estral and ovulatory responses following short-term protocols for induction/synchronization of estrus in Altamurana ewes
  Martemucci, G., A.G. D’ Alessandro and N. Paradiso
• An update on anestrous synchronization in sheep
  Solgi, H., M. Reza Zadeh Valejerdi, P. Eftekhari Yazdi, A. Shahverdi, M. Daneshzadeh, A. Dalman, F. Hasani and V. Siavashi
• Postfasting leptin levels in Awassi, Friesian × Awassi and Friesian × Merino ewes
  Yildiz, S., G.B. Martin, R. Bencini, M. Blackberry, G. Pedrana, S. Agra and D. Blache
• The developmental process of rumen fistulation in Iranian native ruminants
  Safaei, A.R., H. Fazaeli, M. Zahedifar, H. Mansouri and S.A. Mirhadi
• Assessment of rabbit semen quality using resazurin reduction test
  El-Battawy, K.A.