Corticosterone plasma concentration in male mule ducks: Effects of sampling sites, repeated samplings and ACTH injections

British Poultry Science

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 304-309

  Noirault, J ^a,b   Guemene D ^a   Guy, G ^b   Faure, J M ^a  

^a STATION DE RECHERCHES AVICOLES   (France)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BLOOD SAMPLING; CROSS BREEDING; DUCK; FEMALE; FORELIMB; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; SECRETION; VASCULARIZATION;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ANIMALS; BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION; CORTICOSTERONE; CROSSES, GENETIC; DUCKS; FEMALE; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; MALE; WING;

EID: 0033125212     PISSN: 00071668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00071669987746     Document Type: Article

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