Urinary creatinine as a nutritional and urinary volume marker in sheep fed with tropical or temperate forages
To test the accuracy of creatinine as a marker for estimating urinary volume and its use as a nutritional index, the possible interference of forage intake and forage quality over creatinine excretion was evaluated. For this, sheep were fed different levels of pearl millet (Pennisetum americanum(L)...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
2015-08-01
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Series: | Arquivo Brasileiro de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia |
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Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-09352015000401009&lng=en&tlng=en |