Susana Rojas

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México | UNAM · Department of Reproduction

Undernutrition during pregnancy dramatically affects physiology and behaviour of mother and offspring. In the mother, undernutrition causes low body condition, which deteriorates good milk production. Likewise, it affects metabolism endocrinology and learning processes controls on offspring. Effects on females can be observed if the animal is expos...

Treatment with bovine somatotropin (bST) during estrous synchronization increased fertility and prolificacy in sheep. In the present study, a single dose of bST 5 days before the end of progestin treatment improved cleavage and embryo development. Stage of estrous cycle was synchronized in ewes (n=32) with progestin and superovulation was induced b...

In order to evaluate the effect of the site of cooled semen deposition (intrauterine or cervical) on subsequent fertility in Pelibuey ewes, a study was carried out during the breeding season in the dry tropic region from the Southern of Mexico, at 18° 15′N and 99°38′W. A total of 40 cycling Pelibuey ewes from 2-4 years of age were used with corpora...

Heat stress before and after ovulation affects embryonic development in sheep, and genetic differences in heat tolerance have been observed. In the present study, it has been assessed whether heat stress during the postovulatory period may reduce the proportion of transferable embryos and blastocysts in ewes, and if the effect on sheep adapted to w...

Heat stress before and after ovulation affects embryonic development in sheep, and genetic differences in heat tolerance have been observed. In the present study, it has been assessed whether heat stress during the postovulatory period may reduce the proportion of transferable embryos and blastocysts in ewes, and if the effect on sheep adapted to w...

The chicken ovary is organized into a hierarchy of yellow yolky follicles that ovulate on successive days. Active or passive immunization of laying hens against testosterone blocks ovulation without affecting follicle development. Testosterone may play a role in pre-ovulatory follicle maturation by stimulating granulosa progesterone production. We...

The chicken ovary is organized into a hierarchy of yellow yolky follicles that ovulate on successive days, and their steroid secretion is dependent on the developmental degree of the follicle. Testosterone has been recently described to have an important role in follicle ovulation. Active or passive immunization of laying hens against testosterone...

To determine the pattern of follicular growth during oestrus and the relationship with estradiol and luteinizing hormone in ovulating and non-ovulating cows, three groups of (n = 10), thirty cyclic, Bos indicus cows were synchronized with CIDR, consecutively at 9-day intervals. Twenty-four hours after implant withdrawal, all cows synchronized in th...

The relative proportion of the circulating luteinizing hormone isoforms in goats during follicular phase (pre-ovulatory peak; F) and anestrus (A) was investigated. Estrus was synchronized in six goats with a prostaglandin analogue. After estrus was detected, blood samples were taken at 1 h intervals for 24 h. Four anestrous goats received 100 micro...

The effects of testosterone on progesterone production of hen granulosa cells have been reported to be both stimulatory and inhibitory. The hypothesis was that the effect of testosterone on progesterone production of laying hen granulosa cells is dependent on the degree of cell maturation. Specifically, we hypothesized that testosterone is inhibito...

Artificial insemination (AI) was performed in spider monkeys; these primates are vulnerable to extinction and usually do not reproduce spontaneously in captivity. Uterine cycles were followed by daily assessment of vaginal cytology, and corroborated a posteriori by concentrations of 17-beta estradiol and progesterone, measured by radioimmunoassay (...

A number of studies in free-ranging and captive spider monkeys (Ateles spp.) have shown that this genus is able to reproduce throughout the entire year. Nonetheless, it is still controversial whether births, and therefore conceptions, tend to be more frequent during certain seasons. In the present study, we monitored changes in fecal 17beta-estradi...

Odor communication in Old World monkeys and apes is controversial, because most females have evolved visual and behavioral cues to signal fertility, e.g., sexual swellings. Female stump-tailed macaques (Macaca arctoides) do not have swellings, and mediation of chemical communication likely occurs because males engage in sexual behavior mostly throu...

The relative abundance of the different isoforms of pituitary and circulating luteinising hormone (LH) in ewes, at different times after the administration of gonadotrophin-releasing hormone (GnRH), during the luteal phase of the oestrous cycle was investigated. Sixteen ewes on Day 9 of their cycle were divided into four groups (n = 4). The control...

The pattern of distribution of circulating luteinizing hormone (LH) isoforms in cattle during estrus and the luteal phase was investigated. In each stage, the stage of the estrous cycle was synchronized in seven Holstein heifers with a prostaglandin analogue. After estrus was detected, blood samples were taken at 2-h intervals for 24h. In the lutea...

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This experiment studied the combined effect of pre- and post-calving feed supplementation on the productive and reproductive performance of primiparous Brahman cows. The animals were 4 years old (420 kg live weight) and pregnant, and grazed rotationally on Stargrass (Cynodon nlemfuensis) pastures. Supplementation was given before and after (T1, n =...

The ovarian cycles of four adult female spider monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi) were followed daily throughout 30 days by means of vaginal swabs and blood samplings. Cytological analyses of the vaginal swabs and radioimmunoassay determination of the daily levels of estradiol-17 beta (E2) and progesterone (P4) wer done in order to classify the kind of ova...