Relationship of birth weight with the size, number and proportion of fibres in the pig semitendinosus muscle

Journal of Veterinary Medicine Series C: Anatomia Histologia Embryologia

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 275-278

  Tristan F ^a   Rivero, M A ^b   Albors, O L ^a   Ramis, G ^a   Vazquez J M ^a   Martinez M ^a   Martinez J S ^a   Gil, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CYTOCHEMISTRY; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEAT; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; SKELETAL MUSCLE; STANDARD; SWINE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; BIRTH WEIGHT; FEMALE; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEAT; MUSCLE FIBERS, SKELETAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; SWINE;

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EID: 67651174357     PISSN: 03402096     EISSN: 14390264     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0264.2009.00936.x     Document Type: Article

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