Bone development and activity in chickens in response to reduced weight-load on legs

Animal Research

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 327-336

  Rutten, Mark ^a   Leterrier, Christine ^b   Constantin, Paul ^b   Reiter, Klaus ^a   Bessei, Werner ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^b STATION DE RECHERCHES AVICOLES   (France)

Author keywords

Bone; Chicken; Exercise; Growth; Locomotion

Indexed keywords

AVES; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 0346439682     PISSN: 16273583     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/animres:2002027     Document Type: Article

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