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Pain may activate the stress response and hence hormone secretion from the pituitary glands, adrenal glands and pancreas. This leads to substrate mobilisation and catabolism, particularly protein wasting. These effects can impair wound healing, and in the long term result in immunosuppression. They can also cause a negative energy balance, giving weight loss or poor growth in young animals. It is important to bear this fact in mind when considering the economics of analgesia in food animal production.
- Subject:
- Applied Science
- Health, Medicine and Nursing
- Life Science
- Material Type:
- Diagram/Illustration
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- WikiVet
- Provider Set:
- Veterinary Nursing
- Date Added:
- 02/27/2015