Non-invasive pregnancy testing

RE: Non-invasive pregnancy testing

Hannah Wynne Richards — Sun, 08 Jan 2017 12:01:14 GMT

The worst part is having to handle benzene..............nasty stuff. Conc acids need handling with care as well/

Wynne

RE: Non-invasive pregnancy testing

Marie Kubiak — Sun, 08 Jan 2017 08:19:20 GMT

[quote user="Hannah Wynne Richards"]

Used to be...............years ago. Cuboni test carried out between days 150 and 300. That's a test for oestrogens. Involves nasty chemicals, conc HCl and conc H2SO4 and benzene. If you like I can give you the method.

Wynne

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Sorry Wynne- had missed this when first posted. If I can't find a commercial test will definitely take you up on this (though our lab facilities are fairly basic currently!)

Marie

RE: Non-invasive pregnancy testing

Marie Kubiak — Sat, 07 Jan 2017 09:39:19 GMT

[quote user="Evelyn Barbour-Hill"]Maybe phone Beaufort Cottage Labs and see if they can do a Cuboni test?[/quote]

Will do

[quote user="Evelyn Barbour-Hill"]I love tapirs and their wonderful head anatomy,[/quote]

Should our candle of tapirs (thank you Google) have any dental issues you are now top of the list of people to harass!

RE: Non-invasive pregnancy testing

Evelyn Barbour-Hill — Fri, 06 Jan 2017 18:17:42 GMT

Maybe phone Beaufort Cottage Labs and see if they can do a Cuboni test? Maybe do several at weekly intervals and see if you can put an interpretation on the results?

I love tapirs and their wonderful head anatomy, but I know very little about their reproductive physiology. Maybe nobody knows much. J Z Young says the placenta is diffuse. Harrison Matthews says that the gestation is 13 months and that they probably breed every other year, also that "...no serious studies appear to have been made on the biology of the animals..."

RE: Non-invasive pregnancy testing

Marie Kubiak — Fri, 06 Jan 2017 08:03:37 GMT

[quote user="cathal rafferty"]endometrial cups are formed in horses during pregnancy. Would that also apply to tapirs?[/quote]

From literature it seems no-one is sure! Malayan tapirs don't appear to form cups but no-one has really looked.

[quote user="Busybee"]Any chance of trans-abdominal scanning with her distracted by food?[/quote]

Unfortunately not, she is not a captive bred animal so is wary of new things and people. It may be that we can gradually acclimatise her over months to years but I would like to know pregnancy status sooner!

Marie

RE: Non-invasive pregnancy testing

Busybee — Thu, 05 Jan 2017 20:35:51 GMT

Any chance of trans-abdominal scanning with her distracted by food? I've done it in pigs before with moderate success!

RE: Non-invasive pregnancy testing

cathal rafferty — Thu, 05 Jan 2017 18:01:44 GMT

I think there's a test on faeces in horses. I think though it may work because endometrial cups are formed in horses during pregnancy. Would that also apply to tapirs? Would reference ranges be defined?

RE: Non-invasive pregnancy testing

Hannah Wynne Richards — Thu, 05 Jan 2017 17:55:25 GMT

Wynne

RE: Non-invasive pregnancy testing

Clive Ansell — Thu, 05 Jan 2017 17:52:30 GMT

is Equine chorionic gonadotropin (ECG) still measured in mares urine?

If I remember correctly (20 years since going near a horse), it has very long half-life so can remain long after a pregnancy fails - so really a test for "is" or "has been" pregnant.