Meade KG

ORCID: 0000-0002-3051-8586 · 2 papers in corpus
2022
Cervical immune activation during the luteal phase may compromise subsequent trans-cervical ram sperm transport†.
Biology of reproduction ·doi:10.1093/biolre/ioac130

Worldwide, cervical artificial insemination using frozen-thawed semen yields low pregnancy rates. The only exception to this is in Norway, where vaginal insemination with frozen-thawed semen yields pregnancy rates in excess of 60% and which…

2021
Conserved and breed-specific differences in the cervical transcriptome of sheep with divergent fertility at the follicular phase of a natural oestrus cycle.
BMC genomics ·doi:10.1186/s12864-021-08060-9

BackgroundThe outcome of cervical artificial insemination (AI) with frozen-thawed semen in sheep is limited by the inability of sperm to traverse the cervix of some ewe breeds. Previous research has demonstrated that cervical sperm transpor…