Effect of type of anticoagulant, transportation time, and glucose in the culture media on neutrophil viability and function test results in dairy cattle

• Sanjana Malledevarahalli Chandrappa ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sanjana Malledevarahalli Chandrappa, Lei Xie

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliations Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Reproduction and Population Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Ghent, Belgium, Department of Veterinary Sciences, University of Turin, Grugliasco, Turin, Italy

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• Lei Xie ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sanjana Malledevarahalli Chandrappa, Lei Xie

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: lei.xie@ugent.be

  Affiliation Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Reproduction and Population Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Ghent, Belgium

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6537-7632

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• Sebastian Gonzalez Andueza,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Reproduction and Population Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Ghent, Belgium

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• Hafez Sadeghi,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Reproduction and Population Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Ghent, Belgium, College of Veterinary Medicine, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1409-0118

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• Muhammad Hussnain Rashid,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Reproduction and Population Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Ghent, Belgium

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• Mehrnaz Niazi,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Reproduction and Population Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Ghent, Belgium

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• Kaixi Qiao,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Reproduction and Population Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Ghent, Belgium, College of Veterinary Medicine, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China

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• Qiang Dong,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation College of Veterinary Medicine, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China

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• Leila Vincenti,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Sciences, University of Turin, Grugliasco, Turin, Italy

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• Alessandro Ricci ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ AR, OBP, and GO are should be considered as joint last authors

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Sciences, University of Turin, Grugliasco, Turin, Italy

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• Osvaldo Bogado Pascottini ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  ¶‡ AR, OBP, and GO are should be considered as joint last authors

  Affiliations Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Reproduction and Population Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Ghent, Belgium, School of Veterinary Medicine, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland

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• Geert Opsomer

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ AR, OBP, and GO are should be considered as joint last authors

  Affiliation Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Reproduction and Population Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Ghent, Belgium

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6131-1000

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