The Roslin Institute receives Institute Strategic Grant funding from the BBSRC(BB/J004316/1);a studentship from the University of Edinburgh;funded by the National Agency for Research and Development (ANID)/Scholarship Program/DOCTORADO BECAS CHILE/2016-72170349.
Background:Impaired reproductive performance is the largest contributing factor for the removal of boars from commercial systems.Intrauterine growth restricted piglets represent 25%of the total number of piglets born ...
The range of the Greenland halibut Reinhardtius hippoglossoides(Walbaum,1792)includes vast areas in the northern parts of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans,as well as the seas of the Arctic Ocean.Despite its commercial ...
Forty testicles were used to carry out histomorphometry study on the testes, epididymides and spermatozoa of four indigenous breeds of bull found in Ibadan (Red Bororo (RB), Sokoto Gudali (SG), White Fulani (WF) and D...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32072815);General Project of the Key R&D Plan of Shaanxi Province(2019NY-091);Program of Shaanxi Province Science and Technology Innovation Team(2019TD-036);Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(2452020157)。
Normal spermatogenic processes require the scrotal temperature to be lower than that of the body as excessive heat affects spermatogenesis in the testes,reduces sperm quality and quantity,and even causes infertility.E...
Obesity is a major worldwide health problem that is related to most chronic diseases,including male infertility.Owing to its wide impact on health,mechanisms underlying obesity-related infertility remain unknown.In th...
This work was funded by the China Scholarship Council(No.201906325018);the Canadian Institutes of Health Research(CIHR;grants MOP 103230 and PTJ 166049);the Vaccines&Immunotherapy Core of the CIHR Canadian HIV Trials Network(CTN,grant CTN 257);the CIHR-funded Canadian HIV Cure Enterprise(CanCURE)Team Grant HB2-164064;This work was also supported by the Fonds de la Recherche Quebec-Sante(FRQ-S):Reseau SIDA/Maladies infectieuses and Therapie cellulaire.Stephane Isnard is supported by a Fond de Recherche Quebec Santefellowship and a CIHR/CTN Postdoctoral Fellowship Award.Jean-Pierre Routy is the holder of the Louis Lowenstein Chair in Hematology and Oncology,McGill University and William Turner award holder from the McGill University Health Centre.
Human immunodeficiency virus(HIV)has been shown to evolve independently in different anatomical compartments.Characterizing HIV genetic evolution in different tissues and cells provides insights into the mechanisms th...
Metastatic small bowel tumors in the testes are uncommon often indicating an advanced stage of sickness with poor prognosis. The route of spread to the scrotal level has not yet been defined
Authors thank Professor Scott O'Neill(Monash Univer-sity,Australia)for prov iding Dmel wMel flies.This work was supported by the National Natural Science Founda-tion of China(No.31672352).
Wolbachia are Gram-negative endosymbionts that are known to cause embry-onic lethality when infected male insects mate with uninfected females or with females carrying a different strain of Wolbachia,a situation chara...
the National Natural Sciences Foundation of China(31471996,31772451,31970393);the Key Cultivation Foundation of China West Normal University(17A006);the Science and Technology Youth Innovation Team of Sichuan Province(19CXTD0022);Talent Project of China West Normal University(17YC335)to provide for financial support。
The compensation hypothesis predicts that if the left testis is defective e.g.due to developmental stress,the increased right testis serves a compensatory role,and thereby displaying testes asymmetry which can be a re...
The imminent danger of the Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated research in pharmaceuticals that either target the viral Spike proteins fusion with ACE2 receptors,or the infectious RNA replication that often overwhelms i...