The effects of floor heating on body temperature, water consumption, stress response and immune competence around parturition in loose-housed sows

Research in Veterinary Science

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 136-145

  Damgaard, B M ^a   Malmkvist, J ^a   Pedersen, L J ^a   Jensen, K H ^a   Thodberg, K ^a   Jorgensen E ^a   Juul Madsen, H R ^a  

^a DANISH INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cortisol; Erythrocytes; Leucocyte subsets; Leucocytes; Lymphocytes; Neutrophils; pMBL; Sus scrofa

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HOUSING; ARTICLE; BIRTH; BODY TEMPERATURE; BUILDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; FEMALE; FLUID INTAKE; HEATING; HEMATOCRIT; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; IMMUNOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; NESTING; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; NONHUMAN; SOW (SWINE); STRESS; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BODY TEMPERATURE; DRINKING; FEMALE; FLOORS AND FLOORCOVERINGS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HEMATOCRIT; HOT TEMPERATURE; HOUSING, ANIMAL; HYDROCORTISONE; MANNOSE-BINDING LECTIN; PARTURITION; PREGNANCY; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SWINE; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR 4;

SUS SCROFA;

EID: 57749119634     PISSN: 00345288     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rvsc.2008.05.003     Document Type: Article

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