Daily milk intake and body water turnover in suckling mink (Mustela rison) kits

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 119, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 931-939

  Wamberg, Søren ^a   Tauson, Anne Helene ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b R   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Body composition; Carnivores; Milk intake; Milk yield; Mink kits; Mustela vison; Tritiated water; Water turnover

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY WATER; CARNIVORA; FEMALE; MILK PRODUCTION; MINK; NONHUMAN;

ANIMALIA; CARNIVORA; MUSTELA RISON; MUSTELA VISON; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031865815     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1095-6433(98)00007-5     Document Type: Article

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