Endocrine and metabolic factors involved in the effect of nutrition on the production of colostrum in female sheep

Reproduction Nutrition Development

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 447-460

  Banchero, Georgett E ^a   Perez Clariget, Raquel ^b   Bencini, Roberta ^c   Lindsay, David R ^c   Milton, John T B ^c   Martin, Graeme B ^c  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIÓN AGROPECUARIA INIA   (Uruguay)

^b Faculty of Agriculture   (Uruguay)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Hydroxybutyrate; Cortisol; Glucose; Growth hormone; Insulin; Insulin like growth factor I; Lactogenesis; Lamb mortality; Leptin; Progesterone; Prolactin; Udder development

Indexed keywords

3 HYDROXYBUTYRIC ACID; HORMONE; PROGESTERONE;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILDBIRTH; COLOSTRUM; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; ENERGY RESOURCE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; LACTATION; METABOLIC REGULATION; MILK PRODUCTION; NONHUMAN; NUTRITION; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; SHEEP; UDDER;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANIMAL NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; ANIMALS; BODY COMPOSITION; COLOSTRUM; FEMALE; LACTATION; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; SHEEP;

ANIMALIA; OVIS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 33748253248     PISSN: 09265287     EISSN: 12979708     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/rnd:2006024     Document Type: Conference Paper

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