Is the allocation of metabolisable protein prioritised to milk production rather than to immune functions in Teladorsagia circumcincta-infected lactating ewes?

International Journal for Parasitology

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 327-338

  Houdijk, J G M ^a   Kyriazakis, I ^a   Jackson, F ^b   Huntley, J F ^b   Coop, R L ^b  

^a SCOTTISH AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^b MOREDUN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Immunity; Lactation; Parasite; Protein nutrition; Sheep; Teladorsagia circumcincta

Indexed keywords

IMMUNE SYSTEM; LACTATION; MILK PRODUCTION; NUTRITION; PARASITOLOGY; PROTEIN; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SHEEP;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EOSINOPHIL; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; IMMUNITY; LEUKOCYTE; MAST CELL; MILK PRODUCTION; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT SUPPLY; PROTEIN METABOLISM; SHEEP; TELADORSAGIA CIRCUMCINCTA; WORM EGG; WORM EXPULSION; WORM INFECTION;

OVIS; OVIS ARIES; TELADORSAGIA; TELADORSAGIA CIRCUMCINCTA;

EID: 0037348367     PISSN: 00207519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0020-7519(02)00284-9     Document Type: Article

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