Melatonin administration during the first half of pregnancy improves physiological response and reproductive performance of rabbits under heat stress conditions
Nesrein M. Hashem,
Elshymaa A. Abdelnaby,
Mahmoud Madkour
et al.
Abstract:Context Melatonin may have a heat-stress-alleviating role during pregnancy. Aims To investigate the effects of melatonin administration during the first half of pregnancy on heat-tolerance capacity and pregnancy outputs of naturally heat-stressed rabbits. Methods Forty female rabbits were stratified equally into two experimental groups and daily received 1 mg melatonin/kg body weight or not (control) for 15 consecutive days post-insemination. Heat tolerance indices, hormone profile, ovarian struc… Show more
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