Veterinary Science & Technology

Boon Allwin

Publications

• Research Article
  Effect of Endogenous Faecal Glucocorticoid Metabolites on Reproduction in Wild Pigs - A Non Invasive Approach
  Author(s): Boon Allwin, Jayathangaraj MG, Palanivelrajan M and Raman MBoon Allwin, Jayathangaraj MG, Palanivelrajan M and Raman M
  
  Wild pigs are found to be the most prolific, very intelligent and secretive. These animals are adaptive ecological generalists and survive in wide range of habitats worldwide. The reproductive traits of wild pigs are extraordinary showing high prolificacy. Corticosteroids can exert inhibitory and facilitory effects on reproduction. In order to assess the attributable stress on reproduction a non-invasive method of assessing faecal glucocorticoid metabolites was applied in this study. Samples from wild pigs from three different regions were collected and were subjected to Enzyme Linked Imuno Sorbent Assay (ELISA). The purpose of this paper is to discuss the effect of stress on reproduction in wild pigs. Corticosteroids may act at the level of the ovary to suppress aromatase activity and thereby reduce the elevated circulating estrogens considered by many to be responsible for hyper sec.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2157-7579.1000307

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