Characterisation of physiological and immunological responses in beef cows to abrupt weaning and subsequent housing

BMC Veterinary Research

Volumn 6, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Lynch, Eilish M ^a,b   Earley, Bernadette ^a   McGee, Mark ^a   Doyle, Sean ^b  

^a ANIMAL AND GRASSLAND RESEARCH AND INNOVATION CENTRE   (Ireland)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3 HYDROXYBUTYRIC ACID; FATTY ACID; FIBRINOGEN; GAMMA INTERFERON; HAPTOGLOBIN; HYDROCORTISONE; PRASTERONE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL HOUSING; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BODY TEMPERATURE; CATTLE; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; IMMUNOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WEANING;

3-HYDROXYBUTYRIC ACID; ANIMALS; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CATTLE; DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE; FATTY ACIDS, NONESTERIFIED; FEMALE; FIBRINOGEN; HAPTOGLOBINS; HOUSING, ANIMAL; HYDROCORTISONE; INTERFERON-GAMMA; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; WEANING;

EID: 79551522190     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17466148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1746-6148-6-37     Document Type: Article

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