Evaluation of a new strategy to modulate skeletal development in Thoroughbred performance horses by imposing track-based exercise during growth

Equine Veterinary Journal

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 111-118

  Rogers, C W ^a   Firth, E C ^a   McIlwraith, C W ^b   Barneveld, A ^c   Goodship, A E ^d   Kawcak, C E ^b   Smith, R K W ^d   Van Weeren, P R ^d  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conditioning; Exercise; Foal; Horse; Musculoskeletal system; Workload

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; EQUIDAE;

HYDROCORTISONE;

AGING; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTHROPATHY; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BONE DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HORSE; HORSE DISEASE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MUSCULOSKELETAL DEVELOPMENT; NEWBORN; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZATION;

AGING; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BONE DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; HYDROCORTISONE; JOINT DISEASES; MALE; MUSCULOSKELETAL DEVELOPMENT; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; RANDOM ALLOCATION;

EID: 41949093035     PISSN: 04251644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2746/042516408X268923     Document Type: Article

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