Pseudopregnancy
There are two types of induced pseudopregnancy; coitally induced pseudopregnancy and non-coitally induced pseudopregnancy. The ... The length of pseudopregnancy varies greatly with the mean duration being 41 days. After pseudopregnancy, the female cat ... Although female dogs usually only cycle once or twice per year, pseudopregnancy is common. Pseudopregnancy or "not-in-pig" is a ... The pseudopregnancy lasts around half the length of a normal pregnancy in cats. This is advantageous to cats as they can ...
High-dose estrogen therapy
In modern times, pseudopregnancy is rarely used. However, studies in the mid-1990s were conducted and found it to be rapidly ... Pseudopregnancy has been suggested for use in decreasing the risk of breast cancer in women, though this has not been assessed ... Pseudopregnancy has been found to produce decreases in risk of mammary gland tumors in rodents similar to those of natural ... An example pseudopregnancy regimen in women which has been used in clinical studies is intramuscular injections of 40 mg/week ...
Lee-Boot effect
This effect goes some way to explain why spontaneous pseudopregnancy can occur in mice. The same response is invoked from ... Menstrual synchrony Whitten effect Lee, S. van der; Boot, L.M (1956). "Spontaneous Pseudopregnancy in Mice". Acta Physiol. ...
Neutering
23 August 2001). "Canine Pseudopregnancy: A Review" (PDF). IVIS.org. International Veterinary Information Service. Archived ...
Progesterone (medication)
"Pseudopregnancy," typescript, 15 July 1954, GP-LC. Rock also summarizes his early studies in John Rock, Celso-Ramon Garcia, and ... Rock and Pincus also subsequently described findings from 1952 that "pseudopregnancy" therapy with a combination of high doses ... Greenblatt RB, Rose FD (June 1962). "Delay of menses: test of progestational efficacy in induction of pseudopregnancy". ...
Lactation
"Spontaneous lactation is an adaptive result of pseudopregnancy". Nature. 351 (6328): 660-662. Bibcode:1991Natur.351..660C. doi: ...
Pregnancy (mammals)
Nesting instinct Non-human fetuses Pseudopregnancy "Gestation period". McGraw-Hill's AccessScience Encyclopedia of Science & ...
Cooperative breeding
2013). "The physiology of cooperative breeding in a rare social canid; sex, suppression and pseudopregnancy in female Ethiopian ...
Ethiopian wolf
Cooperative breeding and pseudopregnancy have been observed in Ethiopian wolves. Most females disperse from their natal pack at ... 2013). "The physiology of cooperative breeding in a rare social canid; sex, suppression and pseudopregnancy in female Ethiopian ...
Robert Kistner
Kistner RW (1959). "The treatment of endometriosis by inducing pseudopregnancy with ovarian hormones". Fertil Steril. 10 (6): ... " "The treatment of endometriosis by inducing pseudopregnancy with ovarian hormones" The Kistner Library at Brigham and Women's ...
Wang Wang and Fu Ni
Adelaide Zoo confirmed that Fu Ni had undergone either a "pseudopregnancy or a loss" in February 2023. Due to the pandas' ... She has experienced several pseudo pregnancies, which is difficult to distinguish from actual pregnancies as her blood tests, ... "Panda breeding hopes dashed at Adelaide Zoo after suspected 'pseudopregnancy'". ABC News. 3 February 2023. Retrieved 4 February ...
Cat
Tsutsui, T.; Stabenfeldt, G. H. (1993). "Biology of Ovarian Cycles, Pregnancy and pseudopregnancy in the Domestic Cat". Journal ...
Thomas McKeown (physician)
1934). "Production of Pseudo-Pregnancy by Mechanical Stimulation of the Nipples". Proceedings of the Society for Experimental ...
Induced ovulation (animals)
"Evidence for pseudopregnancy and induced ovulation in captive wolverines (Gulo gulo)[dead link]." Zoo Biology 12.4 (1993): 353- ... Mead, Rodney A.; Bowles, Mark; Starypan, Greg; Jones, Mike (1993-01-01). "Evidence for pseudopregnancy and induced ovulation in ...
Wolverine
Mead, Rodney A.; Bowles, Mark; Starypan, Greg; Jones, Mike (1 January 1993). "Evidence for pseudopregnancy and induced ...
Kitten
Tsutsui, Toshihiko; Stabenfeldt, George (1993). "Biology of Ovarian Cycles, Pregnancy and Pseudo Pregnancy in the Domestic Cat ...
Estradiol benzoate
The decidua induction dosages of estrogen and progestogen combinations are pseudopregnancy dosages. As with other estrogens and ...
Canidae
Pseudo-pregnancy frequently occurs in canids that have ovulated but failed to conceive. A period of anestrus follows pregnancy ... or pseudo-pregnancy, there being only one oestral period during each breeding season. Small and medium-sized canids mostly have ...
Prolactin
In rodents, pseudopregnancy can occur when a female is mated with a sterile male. This mating can cause bi-daily surges of ... Prolactin surges initiate the secretion of progesterone which maintains pregnancy and hence can initiate pseudopregnancy. The ... on pseudopregnancy model in rats". Phytochemistry Reviews. 17 (4): 937-946. Bibcode:2018PChRv..17..937D. doi:10.1007/s11101-018 ...
Metabolomics
... pseudopregnancy, and lactation in 800 female dogs". Frontiers in Veterinary Science. 10: 1105113. doi:10.3389/fvets. ...
Endometriosis
Pseudopregnancy (high-dose estrogen-progestogen therapy) for endometriosis was first described by Kistner in the late 1950s. ... Pseudopregnancy as well as progestogen monotherapy dominated the treatment of endometriosis in the 1960s and 1970s. These ...
Alfaprostol
... during pseudopregnancy". Prostaglandins & Other Lipid Mediators. 56 (4): 255-64. doi:10.1016/s0090-6980(98)00053-7. PMID ...
Estrous cycle
Fertile mating leads to pregnancy in this way, but infertile mating leads to a state of pseudopregnancy lasting about 10 days. ... In the absence of pregnancy the diestrus phase (also termed pseudo-pregnancy) terminates with the regression of the corpus ... also known as pseudopregnancy. Cats are polyestrous but experience a seasonal anestrus in autumn and late winter. A female dog ...
Hypothalamus
In the rat, stimulation of the vagina also causes prolactin secretion, and this results in pseudo-pregnancy following an ...
Er Shun
No baby was born in 2014 and it was believed that Er Shun experienced a pseudopregnancy, a phenomenon common in giant pandas. ...
Toronto Zoo
No baby was born in 2014 and it was believed that Er Shun experienced a pseudopregnancy, a phenomenon common in giant pandas. ...
Mei Xiang
She had been displaying behaviors consistent with a pregnancy or pseudopregnancy: spending more time in her den, sleeping more ...
Estradiol (medication)
Both polyestradiol phosphate monotherapy and pseudopregnancy with a combination of high-dosage intramuscular estradiol valerate ...
Canine reproduction
... sometimes a non-pregnant female will go through a period of pseudo-pregnancy. At that time she may gain weight, have mammary ...
Estradiol valerate
A study of pseudopregnancy with intramuscular injections of 40 mg/week estradiol valerate and 250 mg/week hydroxyprogesterone ...