Effect of tracheal mucus and tracheal cytology on racing performance in Thoroughbred racehorses

Handbook of Environmental Chemistry, Volume 5: Water Pollution

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 300-304

  Holcombe, S J ^a   Robinson, N E ^a   Derksen, F J ^a   Bertold, B ^b   Genovese, R ^b   Miller, R ^a   De Feiter Rupp, H ^a   Carr, E A ^a   Eberhart, S W ^a   Boruta, D ^a   Kaneene, J B ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Randall Veterinary Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

Horse; Mucus; Nasopharynx; Neutrophil; Trachea

Indexed keywords

CONGIOPODIDAE; EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS;

AGE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COUGHING; CYTOLOGY; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HORSE; HORSE DISEASE; HYPERPLASIA; LYMPHOID TISSUE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MUCUS; NEUTROPHIL; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; RUNNING; SECRETION; SPORT; TIME; TRACHEA;

AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; COUGH; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; HYPERPLASIA; LYMPHOID TISSUE; MALE; MUCUS; NEUTROPHILS; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; RISK FACTORS; RUNNING; SPORTS; TIME FACTORS; TRACHEA;

EID: 33746595035     PISSN: 14336863     EISSN: 04251644     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.2746/042516406777749191     Document Type: Article

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