“…In addition, other pre-infection metabolic parameters in blood, such as b-hydroxybutyric acid, non-sterified fatty acids, glucose, Mg 2+ , Ca 2+ , cortisol, and cholesterol concentration, as well as in milk, such as SCC, albumin, fat, and casein production, have also been found to be associated with the severity of E. coliinduced mastitis [52,59,93,116,121,126,210,245,259]. Other studies have compared the functionality of PMN between early and later stages of lactation [158][159][160]. The basal adhesion molecule levels of CD62L and CD18 at the surface of circulating PMN and the phagocytic activity of blood and milk PMN have been described to be similar during early lactation as compared to later stages of lactation [63,210].…”