Effect of treatment with follicle-stimulating hormone or bovine somatotropin on the quality of oocytes aspirated in the autumn from previously heat-stressed cows

Journal of Dairy Science

Volumn 85, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1398-1405

  Roth, Z ^a   Arav, A ^b   Braw Tal, R ^b   Bor, A ^b   Wolfenson, D ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Bovine somototropin; Cows; Follicle stimulating hormone; Heat stress; Oocyte quality

Indexed keywords

BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE;

FOLLITROPIN; GROWTH HORMONE; GROWTH HORMONE, BOVINE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HEAT; HEAT INJURY; OOCYTE; OVARY FOLLICLE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; RANDOMIZATION; SEASON; SUCTION; TIME;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GROWTH HORMONE; HEAT; HEAT STRESS DISORDERS; OOCYTES; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SEASONS; SUCTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0036618207     PISSN: 00220302     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3168/jds.S0022-0302(02)74207-0     Document Type: Article

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