Effects of dietary L-arginine supplementation to gilts during early gestation on foetal survival, growth and myofiber formation

Animal

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1680-1687

  Berard J ^a,b   Bee, G ^a  

^a AGROSCOPE LIEBEFELD POSIEUX RESEARCH STATION ALP   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

arginine; foetal survival; myogenesis; pig

Indexed keywords

PIERIS BRASSICAE; SUIDAE; SUS;

EID: 77957244413     PISSN: 17517311     EISSN: 1751732X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1751731110000881     Document Type: Article

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