Heart Rate Variability as an Indicator of Chronic Stress Caused by Lameness in Dairy Cows.

Most experimental studies on animal stress physiology have focused on acute stress, while chronic stress, which is also encountered in intensive dairy cattle farming--e.g. in case of lameness--, has received little attention. We investigated heart rate (HR) and heart rate variability (HRV) as indica...

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Main Authors: Levente Kovács, Fruzsina Luca Kézér, Viktor Jurkovich, Margit Kulcsár-Huszenicza, János Tőzsér
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4536120?pdf=render