Overtraining syndrome in standardbred horses: New insights into the role of red blood cell hypervolaemia

Veterinary Journal

Volumn 165, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 190-192

  McKeever, Kenneth Harrington ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROPOIETIN;

BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD VISCOSITY; CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; EDITORIAL; ERYTHROCYTE VOLUME; ERYTHROPOIESIS; FATIGUE; HORSE DISEASE; HYPERVOLEMIA; NONHUMAN; OVEREXERTION; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; PLASMA OSMOLALITY; PLASMA VOLUME; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ENDURANCE; ERYTHROCYTE; HORSE; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RISK FACTOR;

EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS;

ANIMALS; ERYTHROCYTES; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; PHYSICAL ENDURANCE; PLASMA VOLUME; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0037984191     PISSN: 10900233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1090-0233(03)00052-2     Document Type: Editorial

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