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WE WISH TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE TREMENDOUS EFFORT PUT FORTH BY OUR REVIEWERS THEIR HELP IN MAINTAINING THE HIGH QUALITY OF OUR JOURNAL IS GREATLY APPRECIATED BRUCE ABBITT JOHN CAMPBELL L.E. EVANS CLARE ADAM P.T. CARDEILHAC DONALD EVENSON G.P. ADAMS CARLA L. CARLETON R.D. ALLRICH ROBERT L. CARSON JR M.L. FAHNING JOSEPH ALLROY R.E. CARTEE PATRICIA A. FAIL GARY C. ALTHOUSE J. CATT CHARLOTTE FARIN GARY B. ANDERSON AL B. CAUDLE PETER W. FARIN JANE ANDREWS P. K. CHAKRABORTY PATRICK. FENICHEL LOUIS F. ARCHBALD FRANK A. CHAPMAN P. FENNESSEY A.E. ARCHIBONG PHILIPPE CHEMINEAU B. FENWICK D.T. ARMSTRONG JOHN R. CHENAULT JAMES D. FERGUSON ATWOOD C. ASBURY PETER J. CHENOWETH MIKE J. FIELDS GEOFFREY W. ASHER GARRY CHERR NEIL L. FIRST BIRTHE AVERY VERN L. CHRISTENSEN BERND FISCHER NATHAN AYALON R.K. CHRISTENSON P.S. FISER DANIEL CHUPIN MARK FISHER L. BADINGA JOSEPH G. CLOUD JIM A. FITZGERALD JOHN C. BAKER Y. COGNIE MARK R. FLOOD MURRAY BAKST DALE A. COLEMAN PETER FLOOD BARRY A. BALL P. W. CONCANNON R.H. FOOTE ALBERT D. BARTH LARRY R. CORAH D. FORREST ANDRZEJ BARTKE MARIA CORREA MATS FORSBERG PARI K. BASRUR J.M. CORTEEL JOANNE E. FORTUNE BARRY D. BAVISTER G.H. COULTER G.R. FOXCROFT FULLER W. BAZER NANCY M. COX GRANT FRAZER J.F. BECKERS JOHN COX HIROAKI FUNAHASHI D.G. BENNETT BO G. CRABO LARRY L BENYSHEK MICHAEL CRANFIELD CLAUDE GAGNON TRISH BERGER RUSSELL O. CRISMAN J.D. GAINES D.R. BERGFELT ELIZABETH S. CRITSER D. GALLAGHER W.E. BERNDTSON J.K. CRITSER C. GALLI K.J. BETTERIDGE T. FRANK CROSBY FULVIO GANDOLFI M.M. BEVERS ANNE CROY M. GARCIA-WINDER A. BIELANSKI DUANE L. GARNER T.L. BLANCHARD PETER F. DAELS HA. GARVERICK MAURICE P. BOLAND JEFF DAVIDSON JOHN M. GAY JEFFREY P. BOLDT D.L. DAVIS R.D. GEISERT S. BOLIN B.N. DAY R.O. GILBERT CAROLE A. BOLIN CATHERINE DEWEY T. GIMENEZ KEN R. BONDIOLI B. DIDION SHRI N. GIR! ROBERTH . BONDURANT JOHN R. DIEHL ROBERT A. GODKE MICHEL BOSC MARK DIEKMAN ALAN K. GOFF W.T.K. BOSU S.J. DIELEMANN ERWIN GOLDBERG DEIDRE BOURKE ANDRAS DINNYES KAREN GOODROWE R. BOWEN JOHN R. DOBRINSKY |AN GORDON BENJAMIN G. BRACKETT HILLARY DOBSON K. GOULD G.W. BRANDT ANN M. DONOGHUE JIM K. GRAHAM W.F. BRAUN JR StwGE |.D OROSHOV NELS GRENHOLM WALTER BRAVO ERMAZ . DROBNIS TORBEN GREVE KATHERINE BRETZLAFF ANIL K. DUBEY DAVID M. GRIEGER TIZIANA A.L. BREVINI EDWARD J. DUBOV! JESSE L. GRIMES E.R. BRIDGES THOMAS DUCIBELLA RIC R. GRUMMER FRANK BRISTOL THOMAS G. DUNN L.A. GUILBAULT JACK H. BRITT BARBARA DURRANT |. GUNN KENNETH V. BROCK H. GUSTAFSON E.S. BROUGHTON M.D. EAGLESOME INGEMAR GUSTAVSSON JANINE L. BROWN KARL M. EBERT FRANK C. GWAZDAUSKAS C.M. BROWN S. E. ECHTERNKAMP BRIAN C. BUCKRELL P.D. ECKERSALL AJ. HACKETT CLAUS D. BUERGELT B.E. EILTS JERRY HAIGH WILLIAM BUHI F. ELVINGER BARBARA HALES THOMAS D. BUNCH MAURICIO A. ELZO GLEN HALL ROBERT C. BURGHARDT KEITH W. ENTWISTLE DENNIS HALLFORD ONNIE BYERS K.L. ESBENSCHADE C.R.E. HALNAN R. ETCHES R.H. HAMMERSTEDT HENRIK CALLESEN W. G. ETHERINGTON SEAMUS HANRAHAN D.L. CAMPBELL G. EVANS PETER J. HANSEN Theriogenology 44:1199-1201, 1995 © 1995 by Elsevier Science Inc. 0093-691 X/95/$10.00 655 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10010 SSD! 0093-691 X(95)00338-X 1200 Theriogenology WE WISH TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE TREMENDOUS EFFORT PUT FORTH BY OUR REVIEWERS. THEIR HELP IN MAINTAINING THE HIGH QUALITY OF OUR JOURNAL IS GREATLY APPRECIATED DAVID K. HARDIN BILL L. LASLEY S.T. NORMAN MICHAEL J.K. HARPER ANTONIO LAURIA DAVID R. NOTTER G.C. HARRIS JR BRIGITTE R. LE GUIENNE T.G. NYLAND MICHELLE LeBLANC R.A. LEEDLE DIARMUID O'CALLAGHAN H.J. LEESE MICHAEL O'CONNOR M.L. LEIBFRIED-RUTLEDGE GERARD T. O'NEILL STANLEY P. LEIBO CHRIS O'NEILL IAN LEWIS M. O'RAND GREG S. LEWIS R.D. OBERST WILLIAM B. LEY KENNETH G. ODDE ANNE LICHTENWALNER TIMOTHY A. OLSON CATH. LINDE-FORSBERG R.S. OTT ROB M. LOFSTEDT MARY ANN OTTINGER LINDA L. LOGAN-HENFREY JOSEPH S. OTTOBRE S.E. LONG WAYNE D. OXENDER NAIDA M. LOSKUTOFF JEAN PIERRE OZIL KH. LU H. 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SANFORD BIRGITTA LARSSON ESTHER NOILES JEAN SAUMANDE Theriogenology 1201 WE WISH TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE TREMENDOUS EFFORT PUT FORTH BY OUR REVIEWERS. THEIR HELP IN MAINTAINING THE HIGH QUALITY OF OUR JOURNAL IS GREATLY APPRECIATED JORGE D. SAVIO JEREMY G.E. THOMPSON HEYWOOD SAWYER DON L. THOMPSON R.J. SCARAMUZZI WALTER R. THRELFALL KARL SCHELLANDER RONALD J. THURSTON MITCHEL C. SCHIEWE MATS TROEDSSON KEITH SCHILLO ALAN O. TROUNSON D.H. SCHLAFER PAT M. SCHMIDT D. VAILLANCOURT A.R. SCHMIDT JEFFERY L. VALLET METTE SCHMIDT STEVE D. VAN CAMP RICHARD M. SCHULTZ R.J. VAN SAUN RICHARD SCOTT RUSS VANDERBOOM R.F. SEAMARK K. VANDERWALL E.C. SEGERSON DICKSON D. VARNER BRAD E. SEGUIN RAO VEERAMACHANENI GEORGE E. SEIDEL MICHAEL W. VERNON H.I. SELLERS PHILLIP L. SENGER W.C. WAGNER B.P. SETCHELL JOHN.S. WALTON T.J. SEXTON STEVEN P. WASHBURN DANIEL C. SHARP PAUL F. WATSON ROBERT K. SHIDELER LEON D. WEAVER R.N. SHOFFNER CHARLES W. WEEMS ROBERT SHORT JUDITH WEISZ R. SILCOX W. WELSHONS FA. SIMMEN B. 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THOMPSON Theriogenology CONTENTS VOLUME 44 July (1) 1995, Number 1 PERIODIC USE OF CABERGOLINE, A PROLACTIN INHIBITOR, FOR CONTROL OF REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS IN RATS: WORK IN PROGRESS F. Ferraro, L.G.C. Nisoli, R. Salvo. G. Maffeo and W. Jochle EFFECTS OF FEEDER CELLS AND GROWTH FACTORS ON THE PROLIFERATION OF MOUSE PRIMORDIAL GERM CELLS M. Uchida, T. Tokunaga, K. Niwa and H. Imai...... DEVELOPMENT OF A SPERM HEMIZONA BINDING ASSAY FOR BOAR SEMEN A.R. Fazeli, C. Holt. W. Steenweg. M.M. Bevers, W.V. Holt and B. Colenbrander... EVALUATION OF A MODIFIED SPERM PENETRATION TEST IN RAM SEMEN P. Suttiyotin, C.J. Thwaites, L.G. Sanchez-Partida and B.P. Setchell... A TECHNIQUE FOR [NTRAFOLLICULAR INJECTION IN EFFECTS OF hCG K. Kot, J.R. Gibbons and O.J. Ginther EFFECT OF RETINOL PALMITATE ON OVULATION RATE AND EMBRYO QUALITY IN SUPEROVULATED CATTLE D.W. Shaw. P.W. Farin, S.P. Washburn and J.H. Britt PERIOVULATORY LH, FSH AND STEROID HORMONE PROFILES IN SUPEROVULATED AND UNSTIMULATED HOLSTEIN HEIFERS S. Roberge, D. Rieger and N.C. Rawlings.. EFFECT OF VARIOUS GROWTH FACTORS IN A DEFINED CULTURE MEDIUM ON IN VITRO DEVELOPMENT OF BOVINE EMBRYOS MATURED AND FERTILIZED IN VITRO E.S. Lee and Y. Fukui.... ORIGIN OF THE FOLLICULAR FLUID ADDED TO THE MEDIA DURING BOVINE LVM INFLUENCES EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT M-A. Sirard, F. Roy, B. Patrick. P. Mermillod and L.A. Guilbault FRACTIONATION AND PARTIAL CHARACTERIZATION OF PROTEINS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOVINE FALLOPIAN TUBE: PREPARATION OF REAGENTS FOR FURTHER PURIFICATIONS B. Remy, F. Rabahi. L. Duwez, F. Thonon, F.J. Ectors, F. Ectors and J.F. Beckers..... TUTTT CTC 95 continued Theriogenology ROLE OF EGF, IGF-I, SERA AND CUMULUS CELLS ON MATURATION IN VITRO OF BOVINE OOCYTES P.L. Lorenzo, M.J. Illera, S.C. Tisera ee DB. TECH ccc cecews o 0b 0060s oeewsee ces e+e IR EFFECTS OF ESTROUS CYCLE, STEROIDS AND LOCALIZATION OF OVIDUCTAL CELLS ON IN VITRO SECRETION OF SPERM MOTILITY FACTOR(S ) S. Lapointe, R-C. Chian, and M-A. Sirard..ccccceccce BREEDING SOUNDNESS EXAMINATION OF 1,952 YEARLING BEEF BULLS IN NORTH CAROLINA K.A. Bruner, R.L. McCraw, M.D. Whitacre and S.D. Van Camp.....ccccccecsces SCROTAL SURFACE, SUBCUTANEOUS, INTRATESTICULAR, AND INTRAEPIDIDYMAL TEMPERATURES IN BULLS J.P. Kastelic, G.H. Coulter and R.B. Cook....... July (2) 1995, Number 2 INTRAPERITONEAL INSEMINATION IN REPEAT-BREEDER COWS: A PRELIMINARY REPORT PF. Lepes-Gatius.ccccccccccccccccccececccceseocee FACTORS AFFECTING CELL VIABILITY DURING BISECTION OF BOVINE EMBRYOS P. Bredbacka PCR-SEXING OF BOVINE EMBRYOS: A SIMPLIFIED PROTOCOL P. Bredbacka, A. Kankaanpaa and J. Peippo.... ESTRUS AFTER TREATMENT WITH SYNCHRO-MATE B IN OVARILECTOMIZED HEIFERS IS DEPENDENT ON THE INJECTED ESTRADIOL VALERATE R.L. Larson and G.N. Kiracofe.cccccccccceoscceve EFFECT OF TREATMENT WITH IVERMECTIN ON REPRODUCTIVE PERFORMANCE OF YEARLING BEEF HEIFERS R.L. Larson, L.R. Corah, M.F. Spire and R.C. Cochran..... BENEFICIAL INFLUENCE OF VERO CELLS ON IN VITRO MATURATION AND FERTILIZATION OF BOVINE OOCYTES R. Grocholova, J. Petr, J. Marek and O<. Tepla@ecccccccccccccseccscceccs EFFECTS OF EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR ON MATURATION, FERTILIZATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF BOVINE FOLLICULAR OOCYTES K.S. Im and K.W. Park... continued 1204 Theriogenology EFFECTS OF FETAL BOVINE SERUM, FSH AND 17a-ESTRADIOL ON THE CULTURE OF BOVINE PREANTRAL FOLLICLES S.C.J. Hulshof, J.R. Figueiredo, J.F. Beckers, M.M. Bevers, J.A. van der Donk and R. van den Hurk... BIRTH OF LARGE CALVES THAT DEVELOPED FROM IN VITRO-DERIVED BOVINE EMBRYOS E. Behboodi, G.B. Anderson, R.H. BonDurant, S.L. Cargill, B.R. Kreuscher, J.F. Medrano and J.D. Murray ° ees ETUELE CTTT? LH, FSH, PRL AND ACTH CELLS IN PITUITARY GLANDS OF COWS WITH OVARIAN CYSTS A. Busato, S. Romagnoli, U. Kupfer, G.L. Rossi and G.E. Bestetti.... SUCCESSFUL IN VITRO CULTURE OF EARLY CLEAVAGE STAGE EMBRYOS RECOVERED FROM SUPEROVULATED RED DEER (Cervus elaphus) D.K. Berg, J.G. Thompson, P.A. Pugh, H.R. Tervit and G.W. Asher SUPEROVULATORY RESPONSES TO eCG IN LLAMAS (Lama glama) D.A. Bourke, C.E. Kyle, T.G. McEvoy, P. Young and C.L. Adam.. PRESENCE OF SPECIES-SPECIFIC, MONOMORPHIC ANTIGENS ON SHEEP AND GOAT BINUCLEATE CELLS J.G.D. Gall, L.A. MacLaren and Bee SOCce csOeseesMecees ece SECRETION OF UNCONJUGATED ESTRONE DURING PREGNANCY AND AROUND PARTURITION IN GOATS T. Sawada, T. Nakatani, H. Tamada and J. Mori......-- IN VITRO DEVELOPMENT OF PORCINE OOCYTES FERTILIZED IN VITRO WITH SPERMATOZOA PREINCUBATED IN TWO DIFFERENT MEDIA Y.H. Choi, S. Saito and N. Oguri FREEMARTINISM AMONG SINGLETON BOVINE FEMALES BORN FROM MULTIPLE EMBRYO TRANSFER H. Kadokawa, M. Minezawa, Y. Yamamoto, M. Takahashi, K. Shimada, H. Takahashi and Be Barigeecccccccvcceseces continued Theriogenology August 1995, Number 3 OVARIAN REMNANT SYNDROME IN A TOY POODLE: A CASE REPORT N.R. Perkins and G.S. QUANTIFICATION OF APOPTOSIS (PROGRAMMED CELL DEATH ) IN MAMMALIAN TESTIS BY DNA-FRAGMENTATION ELISA GO. Bingst and 8. Blottmer.ccssecccccceceseseovece INVERSE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TESTICULAR PROLIFERATION AND APOPTOSIS IN MAMMALIAN SEASONAL BREEDERS S. Blottner, O. Hingst and H.H.D. Meyer.. REGULATION OF HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 70 SYNTHESIS BY HEAT SHOCK IN THE PREIMPLANTATION MURINE EMBRYO J.L. Edwards, A.D. Ealy and P.J. Hansen..... AGREEMENT AMONG EVALUATORS OF BOVINE EMBRYOS PRODUCED IN VIVO OR IN VITRO P.W. Farin, J.H. Britt, D.W. Shaw and B.D. Slenning......... ASSESSMENT OF EMBRYO POTENTIAL BY VISUAL AND METABOLIC EVALUATION M. Rondeau, P. Guay, A.K. Goff and G.M. Cooke..... MORPHOMETRY OF STALLION SPERMATOZOA BY COMPUTER-ASSISTED IMAGE ANALYSIS B.A. Ball and H.O. Mohammed ASSOCIATIONS AMONG PROSTAGLANDIN F2a, PLASMA ZINC, COPPER AND IRON CONCENTRATIONS AND FETAL LOSS IN COWS AND MARES T.W. Graham, S.N. Giri, P.F. Daels, J.S. Cullor, C.L. Keen, M.C. Thurmond, J.D. Dellinger, G.H. Stabenfeldt and B.I. Osburn. . PRONUCLEAR VISIBILITY, DEVELOPMENT AND TRANSGENE EXPRESSION IN IVM/IVF-DERIVED PORCINE EMBRYOS H.-M. Kubisch, M.A. Larson, H. Funahashi, B.N. Day and R.M. Roberts.... . ALTERATIONS IN HYPOPHYSIAL RESPONSIVENESS TO SYNTHETIC GnRH AT DIFFERENT POSTPARTUM INTERVALS IN MURRAH BUFFALOES (Bubalus bubalis) P. Palta and M.L. Madan.... continued 1206 Theriogenology ASSESSMENT OF THE FERTILIZING POTENTIAL OF FROZEN BOVINE SPERMATOZOA BY IN VITRO INDUCTION OF ACROSOME REACTIONS WITH CALCIUM IONOPHORE (A23187) C.H. Whitfield and T.J. Parkinson EFFECT OF A SERUM EXTENDER CONTAINING GROWTH FACTORS ON DEVELOPMENT OF IVM AND IVF BOVINE EMBRYOS J.K. Thibodeaux, M.W. Myers, S.G. Prough and K.L. White EFFECTS OF WATER QUALITY ON IN VITRO FERTILIZATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF BOVINE OOCYTES IN PROTEIN-FREE MEDIUM Y. Nagao, K. Saeki, M. Hoshi, Y. Takahashi and H. Kanagawa CYTOGENETIC STUDY OF BOVINE OOCYTES MATURED IN VITRO F.J. Ectors, L. Koulischer, M. Jamar, C. Herens, A. Verloes, B. Remy and J-F. Beckers DOSE-DEPENDENT EFFECT OF HEPARIN ON FERTILIZING ABILITY OF GOAT SPERMATOZOA J.F. Cox, F. Saravia, M. Briones and A. Santa Maria September 1995, Number 4 IN VITRO MATURATION OF EQUINE OOCYTES OBTAINED FROM DIFFERENT AGE GROUPS OF SEXUALLY MATURE MARES S.P. Brinsko, B.A. Ball and J.E. Ellington OPTIMUM GAS ATMOSPHERE FOR IN VITRO MATURATION AND IN VITRO FERTILIZATION OF BOVINE OOCYTES T. Pinyopummintr and B.D. Bavister FOLLICULAR DEVELOPMENT AND REPRODUCTIVE ENDOCRINOLOGY DURING AND AFTER SUPEROVULATION IN HEIFERS AND MATURE COWS DISPLAYING CONTRASTING SUPEROVULATORY RESPONSES D.M. Desaulniers, J.G. Lussier, A.K. Goff, D.Bousquet and L.A. Guibault ADDITIONAL EVIDENCE OF THE FORMATION OF UNBALANCED EMBRYOS IN CATTLE WITH THE 7/21 ROBERTSONIAN TRANSLOCATION H. Hanada, M. Geshi and O. Suzuki EFFECT OF HUMAN LEUKEMIA INHIBITORY FACTOR ON IN VITRO DEVELOPMENT OF IVF-DERIVED BOVINE MORULAE AND BLASTOCYSTS Y.M. Han, E.S. Lee, T. Mogoe, K.K. Lee and Y. Fukui continued Theriogenology DEVELOPMENT AND EFFICACY OF ULTRASOUND-GUIDED FETAL FLUID ASPIRATION TECHNIQUES FOR PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS OF CAPRINE beta-MANNOSIDOSIS K.L. Lovell, D.J. Sprecher, N.K. Ames and M.Z. Jones ..... IN VITRO MATURATION OF PORCINE OOCYTES IN FOLLICULAR FLUID WITH SUBSEQUENT EFFECTS ON FERTILIZATION AND EMBRYO YIELD IN VITRO D. Rath, H. Niemann and T. Tao EFFECTS OF THE WHOLE EXTRACT AND THE CHROMATOGRAPHIC FRACTIONS OF THE PIG PLACENTA ON LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION AND HUMORAL IMMUNE RESPONSE R. Georgieva, D. Stefanov, R. Fichorova and E. Dimitrova PENTOXIFYLLINE IMPROVES SPERM CAPACITATION AND IN VITRO FERTILIZATION OF OOCYTES IN THE GOLDEN HAMSTER A. Rupasri, D. Jayaprakash, A.T. Peter, M.S. Sreenivasa, M. Kumar and P.B. Seshagiri EFFECT OF THAWING REGIMENS ON THE MORPHOFUNCTIONAL STATE OF CANINE SPERMATOZOA M.G. Ivanova-Kicheva, M.S. Subev. N.D. Bobadov. D.P. Dacheva and I.A. Rouseva COMPARISONS BETWEEN THREE DIFFERENT EXTENDERS FOR CANINE INTRAUTERINE INSEMINATION WITH FROZEN-THAWED SPERMATOZOA L.D.M. Silva and J.P. Verstegen FOLLICULAR DYNAMICS IN WATER BUFFALO SUPEROVULATED IN PRESENCE OR ABSENCE OF A DOMINANT FOLLICLE M. Taneja, G. Singh, S.M. Totey and A. Ali INDUCTION OF BUFFALO (Bubalus bubalis) SPERM CAPACITATION AND ACROSOME REACTION IN THE EXCISED REPRODUCTIVE TRACT OF HAMSTERS J.S. Dhindsa, K.S. Sidhu and S.S. Guraya October (1) 1995, Number 5 M-MODE ULTRASONIC ASSESSMENT OF EQUINE FETAL HEART RATE S. Curran and 0O.J. Ginther SEX DIAGNOSIS OF EQUINE PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYOS USING THE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION J. Peippo, M. Huhtinen and T. 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