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US 12,370,033 B2Granted
Method for determining the pregnancy state of an animal
AssigneeAgscent Pty Ltd
InventorBronwyn Darlington
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Abstract
Disclosed herein is a method for determining a pregnancy state of an animal. The method comprises detecting an amount of one or more biomarkers in a breath sample from the animal, the amount of the or each biomarker being indicative of a pregnancy state of the animal.
Claims9
A method for determining whether an animal is pregnant, the method comprising:
- collecting a breath sample from the nose of the animal;
- detecting an amount of one or more biomarkers in the breath sample, wherein at least one of the one or more biomarkers is a metabolite of a metabolic process affected by the animal being pregnant;
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- comparing the detected amounts of the one or more biomarkers with ambient air and a predetermined biomarker profile, the amount of each biomarker being indicative of the animal being pregnant;
- wherein the one or more biomarkers are selected from one or more of the following:
- toluene, hexanal, tridecane, tetradecane, propanoic acid, pentane, 1,3-epoxy-4-methyl, 3,5 dimethyl 2 octanone, 4-undecanone and 4-octanone.
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