Serum luteinizing hormone, testosterone, and thyroxine and growth responses of ram lambs fed locoweed (Oxytropis sericea) and treated with vitamin E/selenium

Theriogenology

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1055-1066

  Richards, J B ^a   Hallford, D M ^a   Duff, G C ^a  

^a NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Immunoglobulin; Locoweed; Reproduction; Sheep

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; GONADORELIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; SELENIUM; TESTOSTERONE; THYROXINE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD POISONING; GRASS; GROWTH; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; LAMB; LEGUME; MALE; MINERAL INTAKE; NONHUMAN; PLANT; REPRODUCTION; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASE; VITAMIN INTAKE;

ANIMALS; FABACEAE; FOOD POISONING; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; PLANTS, TOXIC; SELENIUM; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; TESTOSTERONE; THYROXINE; VITAMIN E;

ANIMALIA; OVIS ARIES; OXYTROPIS SERICEA;

EID: 0033212794     PISSN: 0093691X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0093-691X(99)00194-6     Document Type: Article

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