Steroidal regulation of uterine resistance to bacterial infection in livestock

Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology

Volumn 1, Issue , 2003, Pages

  Lewis, Gregory S ^a  

^a USDA ARS US Sheep Experiment Station   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ICOSANOID; LEUKOTRIENE B4; PROGESTERONE; PROSTAGLANDIN F2 ALPHA; STEROID;

ANIMAL WELFARE; ARCANOBACTERIUM; CATTLE DISEASE; CELL FUNCTION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CORPUS LUTEUM; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DAIRY CATTLE; DOWN REGULATION; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FATTY ACID SYNTHESIS; FEMALE; HORMONAL REGULATION; HYPOTHESIS; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INFECTION RESISTANCE; LIVESTOCK; LUTEAL PHASE; LYMPHOCYTE FUNCTION; METRITIS; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PROSTAGLANDIN RELEASE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PUERPERAL INFECTION; PUERPERIUM; REPRODUCTIVE EFFORT; REVIEW; SHEEP DISEASE; SWINE; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL INFECTION; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; UTERUS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; EICOSANOIDS; FEMALE; PROGESTERONE; UTERUS;

EID: 3543065411     PISSN: 14777827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7827-1-117     Document Type: Review

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