The effect of dietary betaine on intestinal and plasma levels of betaine in uninfected and coccidia-infected broiler chicks

Parasitology Research

Volumn 90, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 343-348

  Fetterer, R H ^a   Augustine, P C ^a   Allen, P C ^a   Barfield, R C ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETAINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; COCCIDIOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DIETARY INTAKE; DUODENUM; EIMERIA; INTESTINE; MIDGUT; NONHUMAN; PLASMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WEIGHT GAIN;

ANIMALS; BETAINE; CHICKENS; COCCIDIOSIS; DIET; DUODENUM; EIMERIA; EIMERIA TENELLA; INTESTINAL ABSORPTION; INTESTINES; POULTRY DISEASES; WEIGHT GAIN;

ACERVULINA; ANIMALIA; AVES; COCCIDIA; EIMERIA; EIMERIA ACERVULINA; EIMERIA MAXIMA; EIMERIA TENELLA; GALLUS GALLUS; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0042768623     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-003-0864-z     Document Type: Article

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