Insights on the host stress, fear and growth responses to the deoxynivalenol feed contaminant in broiler chickens

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Ghareeb, Khaled ^a,b   Awad, Wageha A ^a,b   Sid Ahmed, Omer E ^a   Böhm, Josef ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^b South Valley University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; FOOD ADDITIVE; VOMITOXIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BROILER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; FEAR; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD INTAKE; HETEROPHIL TO LYMPHOCYTE RATIO; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; TONIC IMMOBILITY;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CHICKENS; CORTICOSTERONE; DIET; FEAR; FOOD CONTAMINATION; MALE; MYCOTOXINS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TRICHOTHECENES; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 84900442109     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0087727     Document Type: Article

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