Effect of dietary flax oil and hypobaric hypoxia on pulmonary hypertension and haematological variables in broiler chickens

British Poultry Science

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 385-391

  Walton, J P ^a   Bond, J M ^a   Julian, R J ^a   Squires, E J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FATTY ACID; LINSEED OIL;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL FOOD; ANOXIA; ARTICLE; BIRD DISEASE; CHEMISTRY; CHICKEN; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE; FAT INTAKE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRESSURE; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION;

ANIMAL NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; ANIMALS; ANOXIA; CHICKENS; DIETARY FATS; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE; FATTY ACIDS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; LINSEED OIL; POULTRY DISEASES; PRESSURE;

EID: 0033158251     PISSN: 00071668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00071669987494     Document Type: Article

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