Growth and the Somatotropic Axis in Young Thoroughbreds

This group of experiments focused on relationships between diet, somatotropic axis, and growth. Growth hormone (GH) and insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) are factors in the somatotropic axis, and important to development of growth cartilage in the young animal. The entire study was divided into...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Staniar, William Burton
Other Authors: Animal and Poultry Sciences
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/26273
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-02222002-135203/