Countermeasures for pasture-associated laminitis in ponies and horses

Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 136, Issue 7, 2006, Pages

  Harris, Patricia ^a   Bailey, Simon R ^b   Elliott, Jonathan ^b   Longland, Annette ^c  

^a WALTHAM CENTRE FOR PET NUTRITION   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^c ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2,4 THIAZOLIDINEDIONE DERIVATIVE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; ARGININE; CINNAMON EXTRACT; ENDOTHELIN; ENDOTHELIN CONVERTING ENZYME INHIBITOR; ENDOTHELIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; ENDOTOXIN; FRUCTAN; GELATINASE A; GELATINASE B; GLUCOSE; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE; MONOAMINE; NITRIC OXIDE DONOR; VASOACTIVE AGENT; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENT; VASODILATOR AGENT; VIRGINIAMYCIN;

ABSORPTION; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; BREED DIFFERENCE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXERCISE; FERMENTATION; FOOD INTAKE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HOOF AND CLAW; HORSE DISEASE; HUMAN; INSULIN RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; PASTURE; SMALL INTESTINE; VASOCONSTRICTION; VASODILATATION;

ANIMALIA; EQUIDAE;

EID: 33745662857     PISSN: 00223166     EISSN: 15416100     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jn/136.7.2114s     Document Type: Conference Paper

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