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Indian Journal of
Animal Research
Print ISSN: 0367-6722
Online ISSN: 0976-0555
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6.40
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0.233
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Chief Editor:
M. R. Saseendranath
Kerala Veterinary and Animal Science University, Mannuthy, Thrissur, INDIA
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Indian Journal of Animal Research, volume 49 issue 5 (october 2015) : 680-686

Diagnostic reliability of enzymatic-immunoassayed serum pregnancy-associated glycoproteins in detecting early pregnancy compared to other screening measures in Aardi goats (Capra hircus) in saudi arabia

Kamal A. Al-Samawi, Mohamed J. Al-Hassan, Ayman Swelum
1Department of Animal Production, College of Food and Agriculture Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi ­Arabia.
Cite article:- Al-Samawi A. Kamal, Al-Hassan J. Mohamed, Swelum Ayman (2025). Diagnostic reliability of enzymatic-immunoassayed serum pregnancy-associated glycoproteins in detecting early pregnancy compared to other screening measures in Aardi goats (Capra hircus) in saudi arabia. Indian Journal of Animal Research. 49(5): 680-686. doi: 10.18805/ijar.5582.

ABSTRACT

Despite proven ability of pregnancy-associated glycoproteins (PAGs) for early detection of pregnancy in several livestock, studies on its diagnostic reliability in Aardi goats are lacking. Thirty-two healthy mature Aardi does, managed under an intensive condition, were screened for pregnancy at 1, 7, 15, 23, 35 and 60 days post natural mating (NM) to evaluate the ability of utilizing caprine pregnancy-associated glycoproteins (caPAGs) compared to other methods frequently applied -but have several setbacks- in screening goats for early pregnancy diagnosis. According to the enzymatic-immunoassay data, our results indicated that pregnant Aardi does had higher (P 0.05) between the sensitivity, specificity, predictive values, and accuracy of serum caPAGs and other methods as early as day 23 post NM. Moreover, both serum caPAGs and US technique were proven to give higher (P y diagnosis in Aardi goats. In conclusion, the obtained results herein clearly demonstrated that enzymatic-immunoassayed serum caPAGs, as a direct, simple, accurate, inexpensive, practical and fast screening measure, was greatly feasible for distinguishing pregnant from non-pregnant as early as day 23 post NM, which is crucial to treat fertility problems early and efficiently.

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