Acute heat stress brings down milk secretion in dairy cows by up-regulating the activity of the milk-borne negative feedback regulatory system.docVIP

BMC Physiology BioMedCentral Research article Open Access Acute heat stress brings down milk secretion in dairy cows by up-regulating the activity of the milk-borne negative feedback regulatory system Nissim Silanikove*, Fira Shapiro and Dima Shinder Address: Biology of Lactation Laboratory, Inst. of Animal Sciences, Agricultural Research Organization, PO Box 6, Bet Dagan 50250, Israel Email: Nissim Silanikove* - nsilanik@agri.huji.ac.il; Fira Shapiro - shapiro@agri.huji.ac.il; Dima Shinder - shinder@agri.huji.ac.il * Corresponding author Published: 29 June 2009 Received: 9 March 2009