Age-correlation of blood values in the Rock Pigeon (Columba livia)

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 156, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 351-356

  Prinzinger, Roland ^a   Misovic, Andrea ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Age; Blood components; Columba livia; Plasma chemistry; Rock pigeon; Season; Sexual variation

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CARBOHYDRATE TOLERANCE; CHLORIDE BLOOD LEVEL; COLUMBA LIVIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDURANCE; FEMALE; FLIGHT MUSCLE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEMATOCRIT; HEMATOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; PIGEON;

COLUMBA LIVIA; COLUMBIFORMES;

EID: 77952096422     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2009.07.028     Document Type: Article

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