Roles of maternal vision and olfaction in suckling-mediated inhibition of luteinizing hormone secretion, expression of maternal selectivity, and lactational performance of beef cows

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 761-768

  Griffith, M K ^b   Williams, G L ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LUTEINIZING HORMONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COW; FEMALE; LACTATION; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; MOTHER FETUS RELATIONSHIP; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMELLING; SUCKLING; VISION;

ANIMALS; BLINDNESS; CATTLE; FEMALE; LACTATION; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; OLFACTION DISORDERS; SMELL; VISION; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 0029960262     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod54.4.761     Document Type: Article

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