The Effect of Supplemental Dietary Chromium on Performance, Some Blood Parameters and Tissue Chromium Contents of Rabbits

Turkish Journal of Veterinary and Animal Sciences

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 217-221

  Şahin, Kazim ^a   Şahin, Nurhan ^b   Güler, Talat ^a   Ertaş, O Nihat ^a  

^a FIRAT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Veterinary Control and Research Institute   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Ca; Cholesterol; Chromium; Immunoglobulins; K; Na; P; Performance; Rabbits; SGOT; SGPT; Tissue

Indexed keywords

EID: 0345820483     PISSN: 13000128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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