Endocrine effects on immune function: Defining opportunities based on knowledge from growing calf and periparturient animal models

Ruminant Physiology: Digestion, Metabolism and Impact of Nutrition on Gene Expression, Immunology and Stress

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 421-453

  Elsasser, T ^a   Ingvartsen, K L ^b   Kahl, S ^a   Capuco, A V ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b DANISH INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cytokine; Homeostasis; Hormone; Intervention; Stress

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899262197     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.3920/978-90-8686-566-6     Document Type: Chapter

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