Three methods of oxytocin-induced parturition and their effects on foals

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 210, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 799-803

  Macpherson, Margo L ^a,b   Chaffin, M Keith ^a   Carroll, Gwendolyn L ^a   Jorgensen, Jennifer ^a   Arrott, Caroline ^a   Varner, Dickson D ^a   Blanchard, Terry L ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYTOCIN;

ARTICLE; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; CHILDBIRTH; FEMALE; HORSE; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; NONHUMAN; UTERINE CERVIX DILATATION; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; BODY TEMPERATURE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DYSTOCIA; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HORSES; HYDROCORTISONE; INFUSION PUMPS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; LABOR, INDUCED; OBSTETRIC LABOR COMPLICATIONS; OXYTOCIN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RESPIRATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0030934394     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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