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Journal of Animal Science, Vol 73, Issue 10 3141-3151, Copyright © 1995 by American Society of Animal Science
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H. Twagiramungu, L. A. Guilbault and J. J. Dufour
Departement des Sciences Animales, Universite Laval, Quebec, Canada.
Treatment with GnRH and PGF2 alpha is a practical method for controlling ovarian follicular and luteal functions and increasing the precision of estrus synchronization in cyclic and acyclic postpartum cows and heifers. This method reduces considerably the period of time needed for estrus detection; it synchronizes the estrous cycle of 70 to 80% of the cyclic cows to within a 4-d interval without any detrimental effect on the fertility rate (65 to 85%). Moreover, resumption of ovarian activity and normal fertility in acyclic cows in favored. Administration of GnRH eliminates the large follicles by ovulation or atresia and induces emergence of a new follicular wave within 3 to 4 d after treatment at any stage of the estrous cycle, but it limits further growth of these emerging follicles by increasing atresia. The precision of estrus and the unaltered fertility rate is due to the synchronized selection of a new larger growing follicle, which becomes the ovulatory follicle after PGF(2 alpha)-induced luteolysis 6 d after GnRH treatment. Also, fixed-time AI programs without the need for estrus detection may be possible using a second injection of GnRH in a GnRH-PGF(2 alpha)-GnRH protocol to ovulate the selected follicle at a precise time. We describe a physiological model to explain how the precision of estrus is improved following PGF(2 alpha)-induced luteolysis, via the effect of pretreatment with GnRH on follicular development and luteal functions in cattle. Application of this model to the development of reliable methods of fixed-time insemination is also explored.
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