Feed Intake, Body Weight, Body Condition Score, Musculation, and Immunocompetence in Aged Mares Given Equine Somatotropin

Journal of Animal Science

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 755-760

  Malinowski, K ^a   Christensen, R A ^a   Konopka, A ^a   Scanes, C G ^a,b   Hafs, H D ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Horses; Immunocompetence; Leukocytes; Somatotropin

Indexed keywords

EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS; PHYTOLACCACEAE;

GROWTH HORMONE; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININ; POKEWEED MITOGEN;

AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY WEIGHT; CELL DIVISION; CYTOLOGY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; EATING; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GRANULOCYTE; HORSE; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; IMMUNOLOGY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TIME;

AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY WEIGHT; CELL DIVISION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EATING; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GRANULOCYTES; GROWTH HORMONE; HORSES; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTES; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININS; POKEWEED MITOGENS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0031093139     PISSN: 00218812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2527/1997.753755x     Document Type: Article

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