Effect of Toxoplasma gondii infection on the development of pregnancy and on endocrine foetal-placental function in the goat

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 67, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 61-74

  Engeland, Inge Vogt ^a   Waldeland, Harald ^a   Kindahl, Hans ^b   Ropstad, Erik ^a   Andresen, Øystein ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

15 ketodihydro PGF(2 ); abortion; goat; oestrone sulphate; progesterone; real time ultrasonography; Toxoplasma gondii

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; FETUS; GOAT; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA FUNCTION; PREGNANCY; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

ABORTION, VETERINARY; ANIMALS; DINOPROST; ESTROGENS, CONJUGATED (USP); ESTRONE; FEMALE; GOAT DISEASES; GOATS; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; PROGESTERONE; TIME FACTORS; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL;

EID: 0030566660     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-4017(96)01025-4     Document Type: Article

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