Nutritionally induced relationships between insulin levels during the weaning-to-ovulation interval and reproductive characteristics in multiparous sows: I. Luteinizing hormone, follicle development, oestrus and ovulation

Reproduction in Domestic Animals

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 53-61

  Wientjes, J G M ^a   Soede, N M ^a   van den Brand, H ^a   Kemp, B ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSULIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; SOMATOMEDIN C;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; BLOOD; DIET; ESTRUS; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVULATION; PARITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTION; SWINE; TIME; WEANING;

ANIMAL NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; ANIMALS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; DIET; ESTRUS; FEMALE; INSULIN; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; OVULATION; PARITY; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTION; SWINE; TIME FACTORS; WEANING;

GLYCINE MAX;

EID: 84855721321     PISSN: 09366768     EISSN: 14390531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0531.2011.01801.x     Document Type: Article

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