Oxytocin facilitates behavioural, metabolic and physiological adaptations during lactation
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The role of oxytocin in helping dairy cattle adapt to the changes in body metabolism, physiology and behavior, which occurs during the process of lactation, is discussed.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 2006
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Naloxone cannot abolish the lack of oxytocin release during unexperienced suckling of dairy cows
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The inability of naloxone in helping to increase the production of oxytocin in dairy cows, with little experience of suckling activities, is discussed.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 2006
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The effects of conditioning to suckling, milking and of calf presence on the release of oxytocin in dairy cows
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The change in levels of oxytocin in dairy cows while machine milking in the presence or absence of the calves is studied.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 2006
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