Daily treatment of horses with equine somatotropin from 4 to 16 months of age

Journal of Animal Science

Volumn 79, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 3137-3147

  Capshaw, E L ^a,b   Thompson Jr , D L ^a   Kulinski, K M ^a   Johnson, C A ^a   French, D D ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL CENTER   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Growth; Horses; Somatotropin

Indexed keywords

EP 51389; GROWTH HORMONE; INSULIN; OLIGOPEPTIDE; PROLACTIN; PROTIRELIN; SOMATOMEDIN C; THYROTROPIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; DRUG EFFECT; EVALUATION; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HORSE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLISM; NEWBORN; SECRETION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; GROWTH HORMONE; HORSES; INSULIN; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; OLIGOPEPTIDES; PROLACTIN; THYROTROPIN; THYROTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0035747440     PISSN: 00218812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2527/2001.79123137x     Document Type: Article

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