Hormonal changes during pregnancy and lactation in bitches fed with FEMALE REPRODUCTION
Pregnancy and lactation are critical periods in the dog's reproductive life and several hormones are required to maintain proper homeostasis and energy balance. The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether a raw material deprivation diet at risk of contamination with toxic oxytetracycline * residues (especially foods containing chicken meal and chicken and turkey bone, the most at risk), could interfere. positively on the serum concentrations of leptin, insulin, triiodotronine (T3), thyroxine (T4) and cortisol, steroid and protein hormones already identified by us in different researches as severely alterable by the presence of this toxic *.