Effectiveness of lipopolysaccharide as an intrauterine immunomodulator in curing bacterial endometritis in repeat breeding cross-bred cows

Animal Reproduction Science

Volumn 59, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 159-166

  Singh, Jagir ^a   Sidhu, S S ^a   Dhaliwal, G S ^a   Pangaonkar, G R ^a   Nanda, A S ^a   Grewal, A S ^b  

^a Gynaecol Obstet Coll Vet S   (India)

^b PUNJAB AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Cattle microbiological diseases; Lipopolysaccharide; Phagocytic activity; Repeat breeding; Uterine defense mechanism

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOLOGICAL ADJUVANT; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM; BREEDING; CATTLE; ENDOMETRITIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MICROBIOLOGY; NEUTROPHIL; PATHOLOGY; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PREGNANCY; UTERUS;

ADJUVANTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BREEDING; CATTLE; ENDOMETRITIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; NEUTROPHILS; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PREGNANCY; UTERUS;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOS TAURUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0034738118     PISSN: 03784320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4320(00)00144-5     Document Type: Article

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