Interactions of substrate availability, exercise performance, and nutrition with muscle glycogen metabolism in horses

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 223, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1576-1585

  Lacombe, Véronique A ^a   Hinchcliff, Kenneth W ^a   Taylor, Lynn E ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OTTERBEIN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXERCISE; GLYCOGEN METABOLISM; GLYCOGEN MUSCLE LEVEL; HORSE; NONHUMAN; NUTRITION; PERFORMANCE; REVIEW;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMAL NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL AVAILABILITY; BLOOD GLUCOSE; DIETARY CARBOHYDRATES; FATIGUE; GLYCOGEN; HORSES; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL;

EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS;

EID: 0345293115     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2460/javma.2003.223.1576     Document Type: Review

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