Metabolic Disturbances in Male Broilers of Different Strains. 1. Performance, Mortality, and Right Ventricular Hypertrophy

Poultry Science

Volumn 77, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1646-1653

  Gonzales, Elisabeth ^a   Buyse, Johan ^b   Takita, Tânia Sayuri ^a   Sartori, José Roberto ^a   Decuypere, Eddy ^b  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Ascites syndrome; Broiler; Male; Strains; Sudden death syndrome

Indexed keywords

AVES; GALLIFORMES; GALLUS GALLUS;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; ASCITES; BIRD DISEASE; BREEDING; CHICKEN; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTERITIS; FEMALE; GENETICS; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; MALE; MORTALITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TEMPERATURE; WEIGHT GAIN;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMAL NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; ANIMALS; ASCITES; BREEDING; CHICKENS; ENTERITIS; FEMALE; HYPERTROPHY, RIGHT VENTRICULAR; MALE; POULTRY DISEASES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 0032198639     PISSN: 00325791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ps/77.11.1646     Document Type: Article

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