Postmortem evaluation of homotypic variation in shoe characteristics of 201 Thoroughbred racehorses

American Journal of Veterinary Research

Volumn 57, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 1141-1146

  Kane, Albert J ^a   Stover, Susan M ^a   Gardner, Ian A ^a   Case, James T ^b   Johnson, Bill J ^b   O'Brien, Michael J ^a   Read, Deryck H ^b   Ardans, Alex A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EUTHANASIA; FEMALE; FOOT; HISTOLOGY; HORSE; MALE; SHOE;

ANIMALS; AUTOPSY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EUTHANASIA; FEMALE; FOOT; HORSES; MALE; SHOES;

EID: 0030208068     PISSN: 00029645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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