The effect of type of vaginal insert and dose of pLH on embryo production, following fixed-time AI in a progestin-based superstimulatory protocol in Nelore cattle

Theriogenology

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 655-660

  Nogueira, Marcelo F Gouveia ^a   Fragnito, Paulo S ^b   Trinca, Luzia A ^a   Barros, Ciro M ^a  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b Fazenda Nova América ^*  (Brazil)

Author keywords

Bovine; Embryo transfer; pLH; Progesterone; Superovulation

Indexed keywords

GESTAGEN; HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; CATTLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG EFFECT; EMBRYO (ANATOMY); FEMALE; INTRAVAGINAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; METHODOLOGY; OVULATION INDUCTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; REPRODUCTION;

ADMINISTRATION, INTRAVAGINAL; ANIMALS; CATTLE; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; FEMALE; HORMONES; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; PROGESTINS; REPRODUCTION;

BOS INDICUS; BOS TAURUS;

EID: 33845975681     PISSN: 0093691X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.theriogenology.2006.10.001     Document Type: Article

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