Boron supplementation of a semipurified diet for weanling pigs improves feed efficiency and bone strength characteristics and alters plasma lipid metabolites

Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 130, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 2575-2581

  Armstrong, Todd A ^a   Spears, Jerry W ^a   Crenshaw, Thomas D ^b   Nielsen, Forrest H ^c  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c GRAND FORKS HUMAN NUTRITION RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Bone; Boron; Cholesterol; Pigs; Triglycerides

Indexed keywords

BORON; CHOLESTEROL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BONE STRENGTH; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; FEMALE; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; LIPID METABOLISM; MALE; MINERAL BLOOD LEVEL; NONHUMAN; SWINE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALIA; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0033807934     PISSN: 00223166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jn/130.10.2575     Document Type: Article

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