Relationship of body condition score and blood urea and ammonia to pregnancy in Italian Mediterranean buffaloes

Reproduction Nutrition Development

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 57-62

  Campanile, Giuseppe ^a   Neglia, Gianluca ^a   Di Palo, Rossella ^a   Gasparrini, Bianca ^a   Pacelli, Corrado ^b   D'Occhio, Michael J ^c   Zicarelli, Luigi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ammonia; BCS; Buffalo; Pregnancy; Urea

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; CARBOHYDRATE; PROTEIN; UREA;

AMMONIA FORMATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY CONDITION SCORE; BUFFALO; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FERTILITY; MILK PRODUCTION; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL MODEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UREA BLOOD LEVEL;

AMMONIA; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD UREA NITROGEN; BODY CONSTITUTION; BUFFALOES; ESTRUS SYNCHRONIZATION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL; LOGISTIC MODELS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; REPRODUCTION;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; BUBALUS;

EID: 32944469358     PISSN: 09265287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/rnd:2005066     Document Type: Article

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