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Short communication: Lymphoproliferative response to lipopolysaccharide and incidence of infections in periparturient dairy cows.
Journal of dairy science - 1 Jan 2013
Catalani Elisabetta, Amadori Massimo, Vitali Andrea, Lacetera Nicola
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This preliminary study aimed at assessing whether the in vitro proliferation of peripheral blood mononuclear cells in response to lipopolysaccharide permits individual characterization of periparturient dairy cows, and whether this parameter may be associated with incidence of infections and with some of the single nucleotide polymorphisms located on the toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) gene. Based on the average...
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