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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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Autores principales: Kelly, A. K., Lawrence, P., Earley, B., Kenny, D. A., McGee, M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 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