Effect of a gonadotropin-releasing hormone vaccine (Improvac™) on steroid hormones, boar taint compounds and performance in entire male pigs

Reproduction in Domestic Animals

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 351-359

  Zamaratskaia, G ^a   Andersson, H K ^a   Chen, G ^a   Andersson, K ^a   Madej, A ^a   Lundstrom K ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROSTANE DERIVATIVE; GONADORELIN; SKATOLE; TESTOSTERONE; VACCINE;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; AGE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; MEAT; METABOLISM; ORCHIECTOMY; ORGAN SIZE; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZATION; SEXUAL MATURATION; STANDARD; SWINE; TESTIS; WEANING; WEIGHT GAIN;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; AGE FACTORS; ANDROSTENES; ANIMALS; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; IMMUNIZATION; MALE; MEAT; ORCHIECTOMY; ORGAN SIZE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SEXUAL MATURATION; SKATOLE; SWINE; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE; VACCINES; WEANING; WEIGHT GAIN;

SUIDAE;

EID: 43249116853     PISSN: 09366768     EISSN: 14390531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0531.2007.00914.x     Document Type: Article

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