Recent presentations and publications by faculty in animal science and NDSU’s Center for Nutrition and Pregnancy include the following:
National Farm Business Management Meeting, Fargo, “Impact of developmental programming in livestock production,” Larry Reynolds.
University of Hawaii-Manoa animal sciences department seminar, “Nutrition, placental programming, and in vitro produced sheep embryos as models for understanding the basis of compromised pregnancies, lifelong health and productivity,” Reynolds.
U.S. National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md., Reynolds was a member of the Pregnancy and Neonatology Study Section and chaired the Pregnancy and Reproduction Special Emphasis Panel.
Society for the Study of Reproduction, Milwaukee, Reynolds, Mary Lynn Johnson, Dale Redmer, Anna Grazul-Bilska, Pawel Borowicz attended in August. Johnson, Reynolds, Redmer and Grazul-Bilska presented “Gap junctional connexin expression in utero-placental tissues during early pregnancy in sheep.” Grazul-Bilska, Johnson, Borowicz, Redmer and Reynolds presented “Global methylation in placental tissues during early pregnancy in sheep.”
Biology of Reproduction, “Placental growth throughout the last two thirds of pregnancy in sheep: vascular development and angiogenic factor expression,” by Borowicz, Johnson, Grazul-Bilska, Redmer and Reynolds, was one of the most highly cited papers that appeared in the 2007-08 issue.
Reproduction, “Placental development during early pregnancy in sheep: vascular growth and expression of angiogenic factors in maternal placenta,” Grazul-Bilska, Borowicz, Johnson, Redmer and Reynolds.
Reproduction, “Markers of ovarian antral follicular development in sheep: Comparison of follicles destined to ovulate from the final or penultimate follicular wave of the estrous cycle,” Grazul-Bilska in collaboration with researchers from the University of Saskatoon, Canada.
Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology, “Changes in cell proliferation, but not in vascularisation are characteristic for human endometrium in different reproductive failure,” Grazul-Bilska in collaboration with researchers from the University of Heidelberg, Germany.
International Journal of Developmental Biology’s special issue “Placental Development Biology,” “Utero-placental vascular development and placental function: An update,” Reynolds, Borowicz, Joel Caton, Kimberly Vonnahme, Grazul-Bilska, Redmer and David Buchanan.
Journal of Animal Science, “Developmental programming: The concept, large animal models, and the key role of utero-placental vascular development,” Reynolds, Borowicz, Caton, Vonnahme, Carrie Hammer, Kasey Maddock Carlin, Grazul-Bilska and Redmer.