Laboratory of Animal Production and Reproduction (Experimental Farm)
In 1997, "Dolly", a sheep cloned from
an adult cell, was born in Britain. These days, biotechnology
is usually applied for animal production or medical care, and
it is necessary for leading our social lives. In this laboratory,
we provide the knowledge and technologies in the animal production
field, such as artificial insemination, embryo transfer, delivery
care and milking. These experiences will deepen the understandings
and increase the love to the living cattle, and will raise the
interests in the dairying, stockbreeding, medical science and
developmental engineering. Further, we study the mechanisms of
the fertilization and the embryonic developments, and try to establish
the techniques for the nuclear transfer (creation of clone cattle)
and the microinsemination in cattle. We hope that our works will
be applied for animal production, fertilization treatment and
regenerative medicine.
In addition, we study the applied nutritional physiology during
delivery and milking in dairy cow, and managements in cattle.
We can provide these researches and educations because our Laboratory
is located in the Experimental Farm of Utsunomiya University.
We have 60 dairy cow (Holstein) and beef cattle (Japanese Black
Cattle) at this farm, so lovely cattle can help our works.
Associate Professor: Yoshikazu Nagao
Graduate school:
Doctor's course
2nd grade: Mizuki ichise (belong
in Lab. Function and Morphology)
1st
grade: Yoku Katou (belong
in Lab. Function and Morphology)
Master's course 2nd grade
Tomoyuki Abe
Michiko Sugano
Master's course 1st grade
Aiko Sasaki
Kumi Satou
Yuki Ota
Undergraduate school: 4th
grade
Kazuhiro Sanbe
Yuichi Takasaki
Ryoko Hirasawa
Eri Yoshikawa
Reproduction and Deveropmental
engineering :
1) Use for the slaughtered cows' ovaries that conserved for a
long time for the developmental engineering fields.
2) Capacitation of a cow sperm.
3) In virto culture of early embryos in cattle.
4) Initialization of nuclear transfer embryos in cattle.
5) Microinsemination in cattle.
6) Specialization guidance of the monkey embryonic stem cell within
the fetus sheep.
Physiology and feeding management
:
1) Calcium metabolism in dairy cows during delivery and milking.
2) Improvements in the environments of cow barn by the tunnel
ventilation system.
3) Reduction in the heat stress during summer in dairy cow.
1) You have to love animals,
especially cattle.
2) You must not mind to be soiled with excrements or amniotic
fluid of cattle.
3) You need car or motorbike for traffic between Mine Campus and
the Experimental Farm. It takes about 20 minutes by car, 25 minutes
by motorbike, and 30 minutes by bicycle.