Hormonal Therapy in the Postpartum Cow - Days 1 to 10

Fact or Fiction?

Abstract

In 1986 the late Prof. Raimunds Zemjanis from the University of Minnesota was the advisor for a PhD thesis entitled, "Uterine Motility Patterns in the Postpartum Dairy Cow" (Burton, MJ). In my opinion this work contains some of the most definitive data to date about the effects of exogenous hormones on the postpartum bovine uterus. Thus, much of the information presented in this paper is based on that thesis. Unfortunately some good work by our European colleagues is not readily accessible. It is often published in foreign language journals in which there is no more than a brief English abstract. One renowned group (Kundig, Thun & Zerobin) has validated Burton's conclusions. The author has had this series of uterine motility papers translated so that pertinent information could be included in this review.^97,98,168