Robert Paul Aitken OD
Optometrist | Corneal and Contact Management
2110 Bells Hwy Walterboro SC, 29488About
Dr. Robert Aitken is an optometrist practicing in Walterboro, SC. Dr. Aitken specializing in providing eye care services to patients. As an optometrist, Dr. Aitken performs eye exams, tests vision, corrects vision by prescribing eye glasses or contacts, detects certain eye disorders and manages and treats vision problems. Optometrists often work closely with ophthalmologists who may need to further treat patients with surgical procedures.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Ovulation, fertilization and lambing rates, and peripheral progesterone concentrations, in ewes inseminated at a natural oestrus during November or February.
- Switching maternal dietary intake at the end of the first trimester has profound effects on placental development and fetal growth in adolescent ewes carrying singleton fetuses.
- Relationship between nutritionally-mediated placental growth restriction and fetal growth, body composition and endocrine status during late gestation in adolescent sheep.
- Nutrition and fetal growth: paradoxical effects in the overnourished adolescent sheep.
- Melatonin treatment of embryo donor and recipient ewes during anestrus affects
- Effect of a high maternal dietary intake during mid-gestation on components of the utero-placental insulin-like growth factor (IGF) system in adolescent sheep with retarded placental development.
- Circulating leptin during ovine pregnancy in relation to maternal nutrition, body composition and pregnancy outcome.
- Influence of placentally mediated fetal growth restriction on the onset of puberty in male and female lambs.
- Impact of maternal nutrition during pregnancy on pituitary gonadotrophin gene expression and ovarian development in growth-restricted and normally grown late gestation sheep fetuses.
- Effect of maternal overnutrition during pregnancy on pituitary gonadotrophin gene expression and gonadal morphology in female and male foetal sheep at day 103 of gestation.
- Effect of duration of melatonin treatment on the onset and duration of oestrous cyclicity in ewes.
- Influence of progesterone supplementation during the first third of pregnancy on fetal and placental growth in overnourished adolescent ewes.
- A comparison of rate and uniformity of embryo development in Meishan and European white pigs.
- The evaluation of a laparoscopic insemination technique in ewes.
- Laparoscopy for intrauterine insemination and embryo recovery in superovulated ewes at a commercial embryo transfer unit.
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