Automated blood cell count: A sensitive and reliable method to study corticosterone-related stress in broilers

Poultry Science

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 591-595

  Post, J ^a   Rebel, J M J ^a   Ter Huurne, A A H M ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Automated cell count; Broiler; Corticosterone; Microscopic cell count; Stress

Indexed keywords

GALLUS GALLUS;

CORTICOSTERONE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BIRD DISEASE; BLOOD; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CHICKEN; FEMALE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STRESS;

ANIMALS; AUTOMATION; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CHICKENS; CORTICOSTERONE; FEMALE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; POULTRY DISEASES; RANDOM ALLOCATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STRESS;

EID: 0042662692     PISSN: 00325791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ps/82.4.591     Document Type: Article

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