The effects of dietary vitamin C on growth, liver vitamin C and serum cortisol in stressed and unstressed juvenile soft-shelled turtles (Pelodiscus sinensis)

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 135, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 263-270

  Zhou, Xianqing ^a,b   Xie, Mengxia ^a   Niu, Cuijuan ^a   Sun, Ruyong ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cortisol; Diet; Growth; Liver; Serum; Soft shelled turtle; Stress; Vitamin C

Indexed keywords

ACID; ASCORBIC ACID; HYDROCORTISONE;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY GROWTH; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DIETARY INTAKE; DOSE CALCULATION; DRUG EFFECT; GROWTH RATE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE DETERMINATION; LIVER LEVEL; NONHUMAN; PELODISCUS SINENSIS; STRESS; TURTLE; VITAMIN INTAKE; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION;

PELODISCUS SINENSIS; TESTUDINES; TRIONYCHIDAE;

EID: 0038020067     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1095-6433(03)00066-7     Document Type: Article

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