Morning Scientific Sessions 09.00-12.30

PREGNANT MARE II SESSION (Barry Ball, Chair)

9.00-9.15

Evaluation of equine endometrium during maternal recognition of pregnancy utilizing RNA sequencing.

KM Klohonatz, AD Islas-Trejo, JF Medrano, AM Hess, SJ Coleman, MG Thomas, GJ Bouma, JE Bruemmer

^{Eligible to be considered for the Michelle LeBlanc Young Presenter Award}

9.15-9.30

A closer look at the equine feto-maternal interface via high-throughput sequencing.

SC Loux, P Dini, T Kalbfleisch, A Esteller-Vico, BA Ball

^{Eligible to be considered for the Michelle LeBlanc Young Presenter Award}

9.30-9.45

Reciprocal paternal and maternal control of angiogenesis in equine chorioallantois.

P Dini, A Esteller-Vico, SC Loux, M. Carossino, KE Scoggin, TS Kalbfleisch, P Daels, BA Ball

^{Eligible to be considered for the Michelle LeBlanc Young Presenter Award}

9.45-10.00

Effects of dietary arginine supplementation in pregnant mares on maternal metabolism and foal birthweight.

P Chavatte-Palmer, E Derisoud, M Robles, C Dubois, C Richard, M Dahirel, J Calvez, A Couturier-Tarrade, L Wimel

10.00-11.00 Break and Posters. Pregnant mare II poster session (The Concourse)

PREGNANT MARE III SESSION (Pascale Chavatte-Palmer, Chair)

11.00-11.15

Upregulation of inflammatory cytokines is associated with alteration in prostaglandin pathways and sex-steroid receptors in the cervix of mares with placentitis.

CB Fernandes, A Esteller-Vico, SC Loux, KE Scoggin,YL Boakari, EL Squires, MH Troedsson, BA Ball

11.15-11.30

Inflammatory mediator production in fetal fluids after firocoxib treatment in mares with experimentally-induced placentitis.

ML Macpherson, S Giguère, MA Pozor,CA Burden, JT Hayna, L Berghaus, S Randell, SA Benson, SK Lyle, AA Kelleman, MM Mallicote

11.30-11.45

Equine placentitis is associated with a downregulation in myometrial progesterone signaling.

H El-Sheikh Ali, E Legacki, SC Loux, A Esteller-Vico, KE Scoggin, AJ Conley, SD Stanley, BA Ball

^{Eligible to be considered for the Michelle LeBlanc Young Presenter Award}

11.45-12.00

Effects of acute stress on parturition in pony mares.

C Aurich, M Melchert, C Gauthier, J Aurich, C Nagel

12.00-12.15

Incidence and pathology of abortions associated with umbilical cord torsion.

JM Roach, KLP Verheyen, KC Smith, M Molyneux, J Bryan, A Foote, AM de Mestre

^{Eligible to be considered for the Michelle LeBlanc Young Presenter Award}

12.15-12.30

Transcriptomic analysis of the chorioallantois from mares with Nocardioform placentitis.

BA Ball, SC Loux, L Kennedy, TS Kalbfleisch, KE Scoggin, A Esteller-Vico, DW Horohov, E Erol, CN Carter, JL Smith

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