Daily treatment of growing foals with equine somatotropin: Pathologic and endocrinologic assessments at necropsy and residual effects in live animals

Journal of Animal Science

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 392-400

  Kulinski, K M ^a   Thompson Jr , D L ^a   Capshaw, E L ^a,b   French, D D ^a   Oliver, J L ^b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL CENTER   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Horses; Pathology; Pituitary; Somatotropin

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS;

DRUG RESIDUE; GROWTH HORMONE; INSULIN; SOMATOMEDIN C;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BODY WEIGHT; DRUG EFFECT; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HORSE; MALE; NEWBORN; ORGAN SIZE; RANDOMIZATION; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BLOOD UREA NITROGEN; BODY WEIGHT; DRUG RESIDUES; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; FEMALE; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; GROWTH HORMONE; HORSES; INSULIN; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036485142     PISSN: 00218812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2527/2002.802392x     Document Type: Article

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