Electrocardiographic and genetic evaluation of giant jungle fowl, broilers, and their reciprocal crosses following unilateral bronchus occlusion

Poultry Science

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 125-134

  Kirby, Yvonne Kochera ^a   Anthony, Nicholas B ^a   Hughes Jr , James D ^a,b   Mcnew, Ronald W ^a   Kirby, John D ^a   Wideman Jr , Robert F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^b Cobb Vantress ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Chicken; Electrocardiograph; Genetics; Ventricular hypertrophy

Indexed keywords

AVES; BRONCHUS; GALLIFORMES; GALLUS GALLUS;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BIRD DISEASE; BRONCHUS; CHICKEN; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS BREEDING; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; LIGATION; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ANIMALS; BRONCHI; CHICKENS; CONSTRICTION; CROSSES, GENETIC; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; HYPERTROPHY, RIGHT VENTRICULAR; MALE; POULTRY DISEASES;

EID: 0032619429     PISSN: 00325791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ps/78.1.125     Document Type: Article

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