Candidate mechanisms underlying atypical progesterone profiles as deduced from parameter perturbations in a mathematical model of the bovine estrous cycle

Journal of Dairy Science

Volumn 95, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 3837-3851

  Boer, H M T ^a   Apri, M ^a,b   Molenaar, J ^a,b   Stotzel C ^c   Veerkamp, R ^a   Woelders, H ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Netherlands Consortium for Systems Biology   (Netherlands)

^c ZUSE INSTITUTE BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cystic ovaries; Estrous cycle; Mathematical model; Progesterone

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; PROGESTERONE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; CORPUS LUTEUM; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; LUTEOLYSIS; OVARY CYST; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVULATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; CORPUS LUTEUM; ESTRADIOL; ESTROUS CYCLE; FEMALE; LUTEOLYSIS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OVARIAN CYSTS; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; OVULATION; PROGESTERONE;

EID: 84862556944     PISSN: 00220302     EISSN: 15253198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3168/jds.2011-5241     Document Type: Article

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