Some aspects of the stress responses to road transport in thoroughbred horses with special reference to shipping fever

Journal of Equine Science

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 99-102

  Oikawa, Masa Aki ^a   Takagi, Shigeyoshi ^a   Yashiki, Kazunari ^a  

^a EQUINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Horse; Respiratory disease; Road transport; Stress response

Indexed keywords

BOS TAURUS; EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS;

EID: 21644487661     PISSN: 13403516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1294/jes.15.99     Document Type: Article

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