Reduced fertility in high-yielding dairy cows: Are the oocyte and embryo in danger? Part I. The importance of negative energy balance and altered corpus luteum function to the reduction of oocyte and embryo quality in high-yielding dairy cows

Reproduction in Domestic Animals

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 612-622

  Leroy, J L M R ^a   Opsomer, G ^b   Van Soom, A ^b   Goovaerts, I G F ^a   Bols, P E J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; CATTLE; CORPUS LUTEUM; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEMALE; FERTILITY; LACTATION; METABOLISM; OOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CORPUS LUTEUM; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEMALE; FERTILITY; LACTATION; OOCYTES;

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EID: 52149106214     PISSN: 09366768     EISSN: 14390531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0531.2007.00960.x     Document Type: Review

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