
%0 Journal Article
%A McDonald, BJ 
%A Suter, G 
%A Hopkins, PS 
%T Defleecing Effect of Betamethasone and other Long-acting Corticosteroids, their Influence on Wool Growth and some Physiological Processes in Sheep.
%J Australian Journal of Biological Sciences
%D 1982/02/01
%V 35
%N 1
%P 33-48
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/BI9820033
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/BI9820033 
%X The defleecing effects of the long-acting derivatives of prednisolone, triamcinolone and dexamethasone were compared with those of betamethasone alcohol when these steroids were administered at the rate of 3· 3 mg/kg liveweight in three equal intramuscular injections of 1· 1 mg to Merino wethers. Prednisolone showed no defleecing activity whereas the other steroids produced positive but variable responses. Prolonged depression of wool growth was evident following treatment with dexamethasone esters. 
