Effect of GonaCon™ vaccine on black-tailed prairie dogs: Immune response and health effects

Vaccine

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 233-239

  Yoder, Christi A ^a   Miller, Lowell A ^a  

^a NATIONAL WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibody titer; Blood chemistry; Contraception; Cynomys ludovicianus; GonaCon ; Prairie dogs

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALBUMIN; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; AMYLASE; BILIRUBIN; CALCIUM; CONTRACEPTIVE VACCINE; CREATININE; GLUCOSE; GONACON; GONADORELIN; GONADORELIN CONJUGATE; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; POTASSIUM; SODIUM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UREA;

ADOLESCENT; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE BLOOD LEVEL; AMYLASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD CHEMISTRY; CALCIUM BLOOD LEVEL; CHEMICAL PARAMETERS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG SAFETY; EXPERIMENTAL DOG; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE RELEASE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MALE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PHOSPHATE BLOOD LEVEL; POTASSIUM BLOOD LEVEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL; SPERMATOGENESIS; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; VACCINATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; CONTRACEPTION, IMMUNOLOGIC; DOGS; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; MALE; SCIURIDAE; VACCINES, CONTRACEPTIVE;

EID: 78649718238     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2010.10.055     Document Type: Article

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