Accessory sex glands as a tool to measure the efficacy of immunocastration in male pigs
The use of an anti-gonadotropin-releasing hormone vaccine for immunocastration of male pigs has been recently approved in the European Union. This technique is potentially useful for avoiding both castration-associated pain for the animal and boar taint in pork. However, some animals may escape immu...
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| description | The use of an anti-gonadotropin-releasing hormone vaccine for immunocastration of male pigs has been recently approved in the European Union. This technique is potentially useful for avoiding both castration-associated pain for the animal and boar taint in pork. However, some animals may escape immunocastration and be slaughtered as entire males, potentially exhibiting boar taint. Therefore, it is important to check the efficacy of immunocastration on the slaughter line. To achieve that, the currently proposed method, based on testis weight, is not fully reliable because there is some overlap in the distributions of testis weight between immunocastrates and entire males. On the basis of literature data on the effect of immunocastration on the development of accessory sex glands, this paper provides evidence that the weight of seminal vesicles might be a much better criterion for checking the efficacy of immunocastration, because their size decreases more rapidly, and to a greater extent, than that of the testis. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-463fd0db952949e09f4e94874d4bbff32022-12-21T20:25:30ZengElsevierAnimal1751-73112010-01-0146930932Accessory sex glands as a tool to measure the efficacy of immunocastration in male pigsM. Bonneau0INRA, UMR 1079 Systèmes d’Elevage Nutrition Animale et Humaine, F-35590 Saint-Gilles, FranceThe use of an anti-gonadotropin-releasing hormone vaccine for immunocastration of male pigs has been recently approved in the European Union. This technique is potentially useful for avoiding both castration-associated pain for the animal and boar taint in pork. However, some animals may escape immunocastration and be slaughtered as entire males, potentially exhibiting boar taint. Therefore, it is important to check the efficacy of immunocastration on the slaughter line. To achieve that, the currently proposed method, based on testis weight, is not fully reliable because there is some overlap in the distributions of testis weight between immunocastrates and entire males. On the basis of literature data on the effect of immunocastration on the development of accessory sex glands, this paper provides evidence that the weight of seminal vesicles might be a much better criterion for checking the efficacy of immunocastration, because their size decreases more rapidly, and to a greater extent, than that of the testis.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1751731110000091male pigimmunocastrationboar taintsex glands |
| spellingShingle | M. Bonneau Accessory sex glands as a tool to measure the efficacy of immunocastration in male pigs Animal male pig immunocastration boar taint sex glands |
| title | Accessory sex glands as a tool to measure the efficacy of immunocastration in male pigs |
| title_full | Accessory sex glands as a tool to measure the efficacy of immunocastration in male pigs |
| title_fullStr | Accessory sex glands as a tool to measure the efficacy of immunocastration in male pigs |
| title_full_unstemmed | Accessory sex glands as a tool to measure the efficacy of immunocastration in male pigs |
| title_short | Accessory sex glands as a tool to measure the efficacy of immunocastration in male pigs |
| title_sort | accessory sex glands as a tool to measure the efficacy of immunocastration in male pigs |
| topic | male pig immunocastration boar taint sex glands |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1751731110000091 |
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