Comparative Assessment of Cortisol, Leptin, Haptoglobin and Inflammatory Interleukins in Modicana and Holstein Cows During the Peripartum Period
Federica Arrigo, Maria Rizzo, Giulia Sisia, Claudia Giannetto, Elisabetta Giudice, Giuseppe Piccione, Francesca Arfuso · 2026
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Federica Arrigo and co-authors compared stress and inflammation measures in two cow breeds around calving in 2026. The weeks before and after birth strain a dairy cow's body, and breeds may ride that strain in unlike ways. The team set a native Sicilian breed, Modicana, beside the high-producing Holstein under the same management.
Twenty cows, ten per breed, were monitored for fifteen days on each side of calving. Blood measures covered a stress hormone, a fat signal, an inflammation protein, and three immune messengers. Both breeds shifted in stress and inflammation markers across the period. Holsteins ran higher on the stress hormone before and at calving and on the fat signal throughout, in the results begun in the report. Readers get breed-level physiology that can inform hardier dairy systems.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Federica Arrigo, Maria Rizzo, Giulia Sisia, Claudia Giannetto, Elisabetta Giudice, Giuseppe Piccione, Francesca Arfuso |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 31 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |