Factors affecting plasma progesterone concentration and the retrospective determination of time of ovulation in cyclic mares

Theriogenology

Volumn 61, Issue 2-3, 2004, Pages 203-214

  Nagy, P ^a,c   Huszenicza, Gy ^a   Reiczigel, J ^a   Juhasz J ^a,c   Kulcsar M ^a   Abavary K ^a   Guillaume, D ^b  

^a SZENT ISTVÁN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b UMR85 PHYSIOLOGIE DE LA REPRODUCTION ET DES COMPORTEMENTS   (France)

^c CENTRAL VETERINARY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Corpus luteum; Logistic regression; Mare; Ovulation; Progesterone

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346397896     PISSN: 0093691X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0093-691X(03)00211-5     Document Type: Article

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