Effect of repeated stress treatments during the follicular phase and early pregnancy on reproductive performance of gilts

Reproduction in Domestic Animals

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 135-142

  Soede, N M ^a   Roelofs, J B ^a   Verheijen, R J E ^a   Schouten, W P G ^a   Hazeleger, W ^a   Kemp, B ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; BREEDING; CHEMISTRY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTRUS; FEMALE; FETUS WEIGHT; FOLLICULAR PHASE; HEART RATE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REPRODUCTION; SALIVA; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STRESS; SWINE; SWINE DISEASE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ESTRUS; FEMALE; FETAL WEIGHT; FOLLICULAR PHASE; HEART RATE; HYDROCORTISONE; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; REPRODUCTION; SALIVA; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STRESS; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES;

ANIMALIA; SUIDAE;

EID: 33847353689     PISSN: 09366768     EISSN: 14390531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0531.2006.00742.x     Document Type: Article

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