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Animal Science and Veterinary

D-Index
33
Citations
3752
World Ranking
2028
National Ranking
44

Best Publications

  • Elevated Non-Esterified Fatty Acid Concentrations during Bovine Oocyte Maturation Compromise Early Embryo Physiology

    Veerle Van Hoeck;Roger G. Sturmey;Pablo Bermejo-Alvarez;Dimitrios Rizos

  • Apoptosis in cumulus cells, but not in oocytes, may influence bovine embryonic developmental competence.

    Y.Q. Yuan;A. Van Soom;J.L.M.R. Leroy;J. Dewulf

  • Intrafollicular conditions as a major link between maternal metabolism and oocyte quality: a focus on dairy cow fertility

    Jo Leroy;D Rizos;R Sturmey;Philippe Bossaert

  • Interrelations Between Glucose-Induced Insulin Response, Metabolic Indicators, and Time of First Ovulation in High-Yielding Dairy Cows

    P. Bossaert;J.L.M.R. Leroy;S. De Vliegher;G. Opsomer

  • Fatty acid composition of the follicular fluid of normal weight, overweight and obese women undergoing assisted reproductive treatment: a descriptive cross-sectional study.

    Sara D.M. Valckx;Maria Arias-Alvarez;Ingrid De Pauw;Veerle Fievez

  • Comparison of embryo quality in high-yielding dairy cows, in dairy heifers and in beef cows.

    J.L.M.R. Leroy;G. Opsomer;S. De Vliegher;T. Vanholder

  • The consequences of metabolic changes in high-yielding dairy cows on oocyte and embryo quality.

    J. L. M. R. Leroy;A. Van Soom;G. Opsomer;P. E. J. Bols

  • Exposure of bovine oocytes and embryos to elevated non-esterified fatty acid concentrations: integration of epigenetic and transcriptomic signatures in resultant blastocysts

    K. L. J Desmet;V. Van Hoeck;D. Gagné;E. Fournier

  • Metabolic Stress in the Transition Period of Dairy Cows: Focusing on the Prepartum Period

    Osvaldo Américo Bogado Pascottini;Osvaldo Américo Bogado Pascottini;Jo Leroy;Geert Opsomer

  • The effect of nutritionally induced hyperlipidaemia on in vitro bovine embryo quality

    J.L.M.R. Leroy;V. Van Hoeck;M. Clemente;D. Rizos

  • Individual bovine in vitro embryo production and cumulus cell transcriptomic analysis to distinguish cumulus-oocyte complexes with high or low developmental potential.

    A. Bunel;E.P. Jorssen;E. Merckx;J.L. Leroy

  • Nutrition and maternal metabolic health in relation to oocyte and embryo quality: critical views on what we learned from the dairy cow model

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  • The association between indicators of inflammation and liver variables during the transition period in high-yielding dairy cows: an observational study.

    Philippe Bossaert;Erminio Trevisi;Geert Opsomer;Giuseppe Bertoni

  • The pre-hatching bovine embryo transforms the uterine luminal metabolite composition in vivo.

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  • Occurrence of endocrine disrupting compounds in tissues and body fluids of Belgian dairy cows and its implications for the use of the cow as a model to study endocrine disruption.

    Evi M.L. Petro;Adrian Covaci;Jo L.M.R. Leroy;Alin C. Dirtu

  • Oleic acid in the modulation of oocyte and preimplantation embryo development

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  • The fatty acid profile of subcutaneous and abdominal fat in dairy cows with left displacement of the abomasum

    M. Hostens;V. Fievez;J.L.M.R. Leroy;J. Van Ranst

  • Interaction between differential gene expression profile and phenotype in bovine blastocysts originating from oocytes exposed to elevated non-esterified fatty acid concentrations

    V Van Hoeck;D Rizos;A Gutierrez-Adan;I Pintelon

  • Circadian rhythm of metabolic changes associated with summer heat stress in high-producing dairy cattle

    Mohamed Ahmed M. M. Shehab-El-Deen;Moustafa S. Fadel;Ann Van Soom;Sherif Y. Saleh

  • Reduced oocyte and embryo quality in response to elevated non-esterified fatty acid concentrations: a possible pathway to subfertility?

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