Heart rate variability in dairy cows with postpartum fever during night phase.

Autonomic nervous function evaluated by heart rate variability (HRV) and blood characteristics were compared between Holstein Friesian cows that developed postpartum fever (PF; n = 5) and clinically healthy (CH; n = 6) puerperal cows in this case-control study. A cow was defined as having PF when it...

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Main Authors: Takahiro Aoki, Megumi Itoh, Akiko Chiba, Masayoshi Kuwahara, Hirofumi Nogami, Hiroshi Ishizaki, Ken-Ichi Yayou
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0242856