Treatment of gastric ulceration in 10 standardbred racehorses with a pectin-lecithin complex

Veterinary Record

Volumn 152, Issue 22, 2003, Pages 679-681

  Ferrucci, F ^a   Zucca, E ^a   Croci, C ^a   Di Fabio, V ^a   Ferro, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PECTIN; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE;

ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GASTROSCOPY; HORSE; MALE; NONHUMAN; SCORING SYSTEM; SQUAMOUS EPITHELIUM; STOMACH EROSION; STOMACH EXAMINATION; STOMACH LESION; STOMACH MUCOSA; STOMACH ULCER; ULCER HEALING;

ANIMALIA; EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS;

EID: 0037833648     PISSN: 00424900     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/vr.152.22.679     Document Type: Article

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