Peri-oestrus hormone profiles and follicle growth in lactating sows with oestrus induced by intermittent suckling

Reproduction in Domestic Animals

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-8

  Gerritsen, R ^a   Soede, N M ^a   Langendijk, P ^a   Dieleman, S J ^b   Hazeleger, W ^a   Kemp, B ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD; ESTRUS; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LACTATION; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZATION; SECRETION; SUCKLING; SWINE; TIME;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, SUCKLING; ESTROGENS; ESTRUS; FEMALE; LACTATION; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; OVULATION; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SWINE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 38149054259     PISSN: 09366768     EISSN: 14390531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0531.2007.00843.x     Document Type: Article

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