Post-mating Inflammatory Responses of the Uterus

Reproduction in Domestic Animals

Volumn 47, Issue SUPPL. 5, 2012, Pages 31-41

  Katila, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; BREEDING; CATTLE; COPULATION; ENDOMETRITIS; FEMALE; HORSE; IMMUNOLOGY; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MACROPHAGE; MALE; NEUTROPHIL; NEUTROPHIL CHEMOTAXIS; PREGNANCY; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SWINE; UTERUS;

ANIMALS; BREEDING; CATTLE; CHEMOTAXIS, LEUKOCYTE; COPULATION; ENDOMETRITIS; FEMALE; HORSES; INSEMINATION; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MACROPHAGES; MALE; NEUTROPHILS; PREGNANCY; SEMEN; SPERM COUNT; SPERMATOZOA; SWINE; UTERUS;

EID: 84865413892     PISSN: 09366768     EISSN: 14390531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0531.2012.02120.x     Document Type: Article

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