Effects of Dietary Taurine Supplementation on Growth Performance, Serum Constituents and Antibody Production of Broilers

Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 109-115

  Lee, Der Nan ^a   Cheng, Yeong Hsiang ^a   Chuang, Yu Shuan ^a   Shive, Jiing Lin ^a   Lian, Yuh Ming ^a   Wei, Hen Wei ^a,b   Weng, Ching Feng ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL DONG HWA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Broiler; Cholesterol; Growth Performance; Taurine

Indexed keywords

AVES; GALLUS GALLUS; NEWCASTLE DISEASE VIRUS; PARAMYXOVIRIDAE;

EID: 0842332832     PISSN: 10112367     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5713/ajas.2004.109     Document Type: Article

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