Meal size and starch content affect gastric emptying in horses

Equine Veterinary Journal

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 436-440

  Metayer N ^a   Lhote M ^a   Bahr, A ^b   Cohen, N D ^b   Kim, I ^b   Roussel, A J ^b   Julliand, V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gastric emptying; Horse; Meal size; Radioscintigraphy; Starch; Stomach

Indexed keywords

STARCH;

ARTICLE; CARBOHYDRATE ANALYSIS; COLIC; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGESTIVE FUNCTION; HORSE; ISOTOPE LABELING; MEAL; NONHUMAN; SCINTIGRAPHY; SOLID; STOMACH EMPTYING; STOMACH ULCER;

EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS;

EID: 3042798274     PISSN: 04251644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2746/0425164044868468     Document Type: Article

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