Lactoferrine (Lf) has antimicrobial effects in normal uterine discharges in cows and allele diversity in its gene may be associated with susceptibility or resistance to infection in its expression. We report single nucleotide polymorphism genesin 5' untranslated region (5'-UTR, position +32) of...

Uterine inflammatory diseases commonly occur in postpartum dairy cows, resulting in reduced reproductive performance due to aberrant uterine and ovarian activity. Infection of the uterus with gram-negative bacteria results in the detection of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) in the plasma and follicular...

In the past few decades, there has been a global decrease in dairy cow reproductive performance. An activated inflammatory system, due to uterine infection, has been associated with decreased cow fertility and as such, there is a need to detect uterine disease earlier. Early detection could be...

Uterine epithelial cells (UEC) and migrated polymorphonuclear cells (PMN) play important roles in the uterine defence against microbial infection. The aims of the present study were to investigate (i) whether undiluted uterine secretions modulate the expression of genes associated with the innate...

Metritis is highly prevalent (10-30%) in dairy cows leading to decreased reproductive performance and economic losses. Recent studies demonstrated that aerobic and anaerobic bacteria are present in the uterine lumen of all cows immediately after parturition. Although the etiology of uterine...

In cattle, conceptus-derived interferon tau (IFNT) is the pregnancy recognition (PR) signal. Our previous studies showed that non-cytopathic bovine viral diarrhoea virus (ncpBVDV) infection inhibited IFNT-induced interferon stimulated gene (ISG) expression, potentially causing early embryonic...

A certain level of endometrial bacterial infection and inflammation is involved in bovine uterine involution during the puerperal period. Factors that hamper normal uterine involution expose the uterine environment to pathological conditions, causing different endometritis levels. The lack of...

This study evaluated the relationships of postpartum uterine disease, parity and body condition score (BCS) to uterine score and their influence on pregnancy per artificial insemination (P/AI) at the first postpartum service of crossbred dairy cows. A total of 588 Holstein × Gir dairy cows from 20...

This study aimed to evaluate the effect of intrauterine infusion of ceftazidime and cephapirin on uterine bacterial load and uterine horn diameter in bovine subclinical endometritis. At 7-8 weeks postpartum, a total of 122 cows suffering from subclinical endometritis were divided into three groups. ...

The article presents the results of a study of the influence of negative energy balance in cows in the transition period in the development of postpartum uterine pathologies. On the sonogram, metritis is presented as a hypoechoic uniform thickening of the layers of the uterine wall. With pyometra,...