Safety of a progesterone-releasing intravaginal device as assessed from vaginal mucosal integrity and indicators of systemic inflammation in postpartum dairy cows

Canadian Journal of Veterinary Research

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 43-49

  Walsh, Robert B ^a   LeBlanc, Stephen J ^a   Vernooy, Erin ^a   Leslie, Kenneth E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; GONADORELIN ACETATE; HAPTOGLOBIN; PLACEBO; PROGESTERONE;

ANESTRUS; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANOVULATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAIRY CATTLE; DEVICE REMOVAL; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; HORMONAL THERAPY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LUTEAL PHASE; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; NONHUMAN; OVULATION INDUCTION; PUERPERIUM; SAFETY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VAGINA DISCHARGE; VAGINA MUCOSA; VAGINA SMEAR; VAGINITIS;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; ESTRUS; FEMALE; INTRAUTERINE DEVICES, MEDICATED; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; OVULATION INDUCTION; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; PREGNANCY; PROGESTERONE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; VAGINA;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOVINAE;

EID: 38449117936     PISSN: 08309000     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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