News from the Board :
The last Board meeting was held in Toulouse (FR) in March 16th to 18th.
Position open on the Board
During the 7th ISCFR-15th EVSSAR Congress in Whistler (Canada; 26-29 July 2012) a new EVSSAR Board Member will be elected.
In order to have a balance between practitioners and academics on the Board, the current position will be open for a practitioner.
EVSSAR members are invited to submit their application (short CV and a picture) before May 15th, 2012 to tom.rijsselaere@ugent.be
Next Meeting
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON CANINE AND FELINE REPRODUCTION
The Seventh Quadrennial ISCFR,
In a Joint Meeting with the 15th EVSSAR Congress (European Veterinary Society for Small Animal Reproduction)
And as a Satellite Meeting to ICAR (International Congress on Animal Reproduction, July 29- Aug 2, Vancouver, BC).
Six half days of plenary sessions, research reports and reviews on reproduction in dogs, cats and exotic carnivores: genetics, physiology, molecular biology, pathophysiology, endocrinology, cryobiology, management, contraception and conservation.
New selected papers (February-March 2012) are available in the Library
Topics :
- Age-related changes in biochemical and hematologic variables in Borzoi and Beagle puppies from birth to 8 weeks.
- Reproductive effects of prolonged experimentally induced hypothyroidism in bitches.
- The molecular detection of relaxin and its receptor RXFP1 in reproductive tissue of Felis catus and Lynx pardinus during pregnancy.
- Study of the development of uteroplacental and fetal feline circulation by triplex Doppler.
- Effects of the GnRH analogue deslorelin implants on reproduction in female domestic cats.
- Significance of tumor-infiltrating immune cells in spontaneous canine mammary gland tumor: 140 cases.
- Fine-needle aspiration biopsy of canine mammary gland tumours: a comparison between cytology and histopathology.
- Canine tumors: a spontaneous animal model of human carcinogenesis.
A retrospective study of those histopathologic parameters predictive of invasion of the lymphatic system by canine mammary carcinomas. - Histological and immunohistochemical identification of atypical ductal mammary hyperplasia as a preneoplastic marker in dogs.
- Vascular Endothelial (VEGF) and Epithelial Growth Factor (EGF) as Well as Platelet-Activating Factor (PAF) and Receptors are Expressed in the Early Pregnant Canine Uterus.
- Alpha basic crystallin expression in canine mammary tumors.
- Growth hormone receptor (ghr) RNAi decreases proliferation and enhances apoptosis in CMT-U27 canine mammary carcinoma cell line.
- TNF-α induced secretion of HMGB1 from non-immune canine mammary epithelial cells (MTH53A).
- Calreticulin expression in neoplastic versus normal dog mammary glands: a cDNA subtraction-based study.
- CXCR4 expression in feline mammary carcinoma cells: evidence of a proliferative role for the SDF-1/CXCR4 axis.
- Sequence variation and mRNA expression of the TWIST1 gene in cats with mammary hyperplasia and neoplasia.
- MHC class I-related antigen-processing machinery component defects in feline mammary carcinoma.
- Understanding of the immunological heterogeneity of canine mammary carcinomas to provide immunophenotypic features of circulating leukocytes as clinically relevant prognostic biomarkers.
- Reproductive technologies relevant to the genome resource bank in Carnivora.
- Sequence analysis of feline oviductin and its expression during the estrous cycle in the domestic cat (Felis catus).
- Germ cell transplantation in felids: a potential approach to preserving endangered species.
- Production of transgenic canine embryos using interspecies somatic cell nuclear transfer.
- The expression of genes encoding zona pellucida glycoproteins in canine cumulus-oocyte complexes cultured in vitro in media supplemented with progesterone and estradiol.
- In vivo survival of domestic cat oocytes after vitrification, intracytoplasmic sperm injection and embryo transfer.
- Vitrification with DAP 213 and Cryotop of Ex Situ and In Situ Feline Cumulus-Oocyte Complexes.
- Effects of Incubation Temperature and Semen Pooling on the Viability of Fresh, Chilled and Freeze-Thawed Canine Semen Samples.
- Stages and duration of the cycle of the seminiferous epithelium in oncilla (Leopardus tigrinus, Schreber, 1775).
- Sperm membrane functionality in the dog assessed by flow cytometry.
- Therapeutic effect of frequent injections of GnRH analogue in a beagle with knobbed acrosome abnormality of sperm.
