Endocrine measurements and calving performance of Swedish Red and White and Swedish Holstein dairy cattle with special respect to stillbirth

Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica

Volumn 44, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 21-33

  Kornmatitsuk, B ^a,c   Franzen G ^a   Gustafsson, H ^b   Kindahl, H ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b Swedish Dairy Association   (Sweden)

^c Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Calving performance; Cattle pregnancy; Endocrine profiles; Parturition; Stillbirth

Indexed keywords

PROGESTERONE; PROSTAGLANDIN F2 ALPHA; PLACENTAL PEPTIDE HORMONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREEDING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COTYLEDON; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FETUS; HORMONE METABOLISM; METABOLITE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PREMATURITY; STILLBIRTH; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; CATTLE; INCIDENCE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SWEDEN;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; FEMALE; INCIDENCE; PLACENTAL HORMONES; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SWEDEN;

EID: 0642340644     PISSN: 0044605X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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