Relationship between serum biotin concentration and moisture content of the sole horn in cows with clinical laminitis or sound hooves

Veterinary Record

Volumn 148, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 209-210

  Higuchi, H ^a   Nagahata, H ^a  

^a RAKUNO GAKUEN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOTIN;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL FOOD; ANIMAL LAMENESS; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BODY WATER; BUILDING; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; FEMALE; FOOT DISEASE; HOOF AND CLAW; PATHOLOGY;

ANIMAL NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; ANIMALS; BIOTIN; BODY WATER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; FEMALE; FLOORS AND FLOORCOVERINGS; FOOT DISEASES; HOOF AND CLAW; LAMENESS, ANIMAL;

EID: 0035901151     PISSN: 00424900     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/vr.148.7.209     Document Type: Article

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