Effect of corticosterone on growth and welfare of broiler chickens showing long or short tonic immobility

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 164, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 537-543

  Wang, Song ^a   Ni, Yingdong ^a   Guo, Feng ^a   Fu, Wenyan ^a   Grossmann, Roland ^b   Zhao, Ruqian ^a  

^a NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FLI   (Germany)

Author keywords

Broilers; Corticosterone; Growth; Tonic immobility; Welfare

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; LIOTHYRONINE; THYROXINE; URIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BURSA FABRICII; CHRONIC STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; DERMATITIS; FREE LIOTHYRONINE INDEX; GALLUS GALLUS; GROWTH RATE; LIVER WEIGHT; LONG TONIC IMMOBILITY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; SHORT TONIC IMMOBILITY; TONIC IMMOBILITY; URIC ACID BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 84873807737     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2012.12.014     Document Type: Article

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