Food, fluoride, and fluorosis in domestic ruminants in the dungarpur district of Rajasthan, India

Fluoride

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 70-76

  Choubisa, S L ^a   Mishra, G V ^b   Sheikh, Zulfiya ^a   Bhardwaj, B ^c   Mali, P ^a   Jaroli, V J ^a  

^a Government Meera Girls College   (India)

^b Post Graduate Department of Zoology   (India)

^c Regional Animal Disease Diagnostic Center   (India)

Author keywords

Animal fluorosis; Dietary calcium; Dietary vitamin C; Dungarpur district; Environmental fluoride; Forage nutrients; Osteo dental fluorosis; Rajasthan; Ruminants in India

Indexed keywords

ASCORBIC ACID; CALCIUM; DRINKING WATER; FLUORIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BUFFALO; CAMEL; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; EXPOSURE; FLUOROSIS; FOOD; FORAGE; GOAT; INDIA; NONHUMAN; SHEEP; TOOTH DISEASE; TOXICITY TESTING;

ANIMALIA; BOS; BOS TAURUS; BUBALUS; BUBALUS BUBALIS; CAMELIDAE; CAMELUS DROMEDARIUS; CAPRA HIRCUS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 79959583900     PISSN: 00154725     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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