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Stress and immunological response of heifers divergently ranked for residual feed intake following an adrenocorticotropic hormone challenge
BACKGROUND: When an animal is exposed to a stressor, metabolic rate, energy consumption and utilisation increase primarily through activation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis. Changes to partitioning of energy by an animal are likely to influence the efficiency with which it is utili...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2017
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5549385/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28804620 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40104-017-0197-x |