Effects of crude red kidney bean lectin (phytohemagglutinin) exposure on performance, health, feeding behavior, and gut maturation of pigs at weaning

Journal of Animal Science

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 477-485

  Thomsson, A ^a   Rantzer, D ^a   Westrom B R ^b   Pierzynowski, S G ^b   Svendsen, J ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Feeding behavior; Lectin; Maturity; Performance trait; Pig; Weaning

Indexed keywords

PHASEOLUS VULGARIS; SUIDAE;

DISACCHARIDASE; FLUORESCEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; LACTALBUMIN; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININ; PLASMA PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIARRHEA; DRUG EFFECT; ENTEROBACTER INFECTION; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INTESTINE ABSORPTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; JEJUNUM; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PANCREAS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZATION; SMALL INTESTINE; SWINE; SWINE DISEASE; WEANING; WEIGHT GAIN;

ANIMALS; BLOOD PROTEINS; DIARRHEA; DISACCHARIDASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FLUORESCEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INTESTINAL ABSORPTION; INTESTINE, SMALL; JEJUNUM; LACTALBUMIN; PANCREAS; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; WEANING; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 34047256220     PISSN: 00218812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2527/jas.2006-250     Document Type: Article

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