Toxic effects of the endophyte in horses

Tall Fescue for the Twenty-First Century

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 311-325

  Cross, Dee L ^a  

^a Equi Tox Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Adrenergic receptors; Endophyte; Ergot alkaloids; Horses; Immune system; Neotyphodium cenophialum; Pasture management; Therapeutic treatment; Toxic effects

Indexed keywords

EID: 85102330478     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.2134/agronmonogr53.c17     Document Type: Chapter

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