Effect of feeding genetically modified Bt MON810 maize to ∼40-day-old pigs for 110 days on growth and health indicators

Animal

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1609-1619

  Buzoianu, S G ^a,b   Walsh, M C ^a   Rea, M C ^c   Cassidy, J P ^d   Ross, R P ^c   Gardiner, G E ^b   Lawlor, P G ^a  

^a ANIMAL AND GRASSLAND RESEARCH AND INNOVATION CENTRE   (Ireland)

^b Ireland   (Ireland)

^c TEAGASC FOOD RESEARCH CENTRE   (Ireland)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

corn; Cry1Ab; safety; swine; transgenic

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; ENDOTOXIN; HEMOLYSIN; INSECTICIDAL CRYSTAL PROTEIN, BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL FOOD; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BODY COMPOSITION; GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOOD; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MAIZE; MALE; METABOLISM; PHOTON ABSORPTIOMETRY; PHYSIOLOGY; SWINE; URINALYSIS; WEIGHT GAIN;

ABSORPTIOMETRY, PHOTON; ANIMAL FEED; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMAL NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; BODY COMPOSITION; ENDOTOXINS; FOOD, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; MALE; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; SWINE; URINALYSIS; WEIGHT GAIN; ZEA MAYS;

SUIDAE; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84860515778     PISSN: 17517311     EISSN: 1751732X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1751731112000249     Document Type: Article

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