The effect of timing of thermal conditioning during incubation on embryo physiological parameters and its relationship to thermotolerance in adult broiler chickens

Journal of Thermal Biology

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 55-61

  Moraes, V M B ^a   Malheiros, R D ^b   Bruggeman, V ^b   Collin, A ^c   Tona, K ^b   Van As, P ^b   Onagbesan, O M ^b   Buyse, J ^b   Decuypere, E ^b   Macari, M ^a  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c STATION DE RECHERCHES AVICOLES   (France)

Author keywords

Bird; Blood parameters; Chicken embryo; Gallus domesticus; Hatching parameters; Heat stress; Hormones; Incubation; Thermal conditioning; Thermotolerance

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CORTICOSTERONE; LIOTHYRONINE; OXYGEN; THYROXINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PH; BLOOD SAMPLING; CALCULATION; CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; CHICKEN; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; EMBRYO; EMBRYO (ANATOMY); EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONS OF THE HEMIC, LYMPHATIC AND RETICULOENDOTHELIAL SYSTEMS; HATCHING; HEAT ACCLIMATIZATION; HEAT TOLERANCE; HEAT TREATMENT; INCUBATION TIME; LIOTHYRONINE BLOOD LEVEL; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN TENSION; PHYSIOLOGY; TEMPERATURE ACCLIMATIZATION; THYROXINE BLOOD LEVEL;

AVES; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 0842349381     PISSN: 03064565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtherbio.2003.10.006     Document Type: Article

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