Effects of a diet containing fusarium toxins on the fertility of gilts and on bulbourethral gland weight in barrows

Archives of Animal Nutrition

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 16-25

  Gutzwiller, Andreas ^a   Gafner, Jean Louis ^a   Stoll, Peter ^a  

^a Agroscope Liebefeld Posieux Research Station ALP   (Swaziland)

Author keywords

Bulbourethral gland; Deoxynivalenol; Foetal development; Pigs; Zearalenone

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; TRICHOTHECENE DERIVATIVE; VOMITOXIN; ZEARALENONE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BULBOURETHRAL GLAND; DRUG EFFECT; ESTRUS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LITTER SIZE; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; RANDOMIZATION; SWINE; WEIGHT GAIN;

ANIMALS; BULBOURETHRAL GLANDS; ESTROGENS, NON-STEROIDAL; ESTRUS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FOOD CONTAMINATION; LITTER SIZE; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SWINE; TRICHOTHECENES; WEIGHT GAIN; ZEARALENONE;

ANIMALIA; FUSARIUM; SUIDAE;

EID: 60649085988     PISSN: 1745039X     EISSN: 14772817     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17450390802611537     Document Type: Article

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