Adrenocorticotropic Hormone Dose Response and Some Physiological Effects of Transportation on Pregnant Brahman Cattle

Journal of Animal Science

Volumn 74, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 1806-1811

  Lay Jr , D C ^a,b   Friend, T H ^a   Randel, R D ^a   Jenkins, O C ^a   Neuendorff, D A ^a   Kapp, G M ^a   Bushong, D M ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cattle; Corticotropin; Stress

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; HYDROCORTISONE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BODY WEIGHT; BREEDING; CATTLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STRESS; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CATTLE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; HYDROCORTISONE; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; STRESS; TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 0030208427     PISSN: 00218812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2527/1996.7481806x     Document Type: Article

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