Factors affecting synchronization and conception rate after the ovsynch protocol in lactating holstein cows

Reproduction in Domestic Animals

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 439-446

  Galvao K N ^a   Santos, J E P ^b  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GONADORELIN; PROSTAGLANDIN F2 ALPHA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; CATTLE; CORPUS LUTEUM; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; LACTATION; METHODOLOGY; OVARY; OVULATION INDUCTION; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; ULTRASTRUCTURE; BOVINAE; PROCEDURES; VETERINARY;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CORPUS LUTEUM; DINOPROST; ESTRUS SYNCHRONIZATION; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL; LACTATION; LOGISTIC MODELS; OVARY; OVULATION INDUCTION;

EID: 77954114217     PISSN: 09366768     EISSN: 14390531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0531.2008.01220.x     Document Type: Article

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