Clinical features and hormonal profiles of cloprostenol-induced early abortions in heifers monitored by ultrasonography

Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Lobago, Fikre ^a,c   Gustafsson, Hans ^b   Bekana, Merga ^c   Beckers, Jean François ^d   Kindahl, Hans ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b Swedish Dairy Association   (Sweden)

^c ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOVINAE;

ASPARTIC PROTEINASE; CLOPROSTENOL; PLACENTA PROTEIN; PREGNANCY ASSOCIATED GLYCOPROTEIN 1; PREGNANCY-ASSOCIATED GLYCOPROTEIN 1; PROGESTERONE; PROSTAGLANDIN F2 ALPHA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CATTLE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETUS DEATH; INDUCED ABORTION; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; TIME;

ABORTION, INDUCED; ANIMALS; ASPARTIC ENDOPEPTIDASES; CATTLE; CLOPROSTENOL; DINOPROST; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY PROTEINS; PROGESTERONE; TIME FACTORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 33947190993     PISSN: 0044605X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1751-0147-48-23     Document Type: Article

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