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Insulin-like growth factors and body growth in chickens divergently selected for high or low growth rate.
The Journal of endocrinology - 1 Feb 2001
Beccavin C, Chevalier B, Cogburn L A, Simon J, Duclos M J
Abstract excerpt
Insulin-like growth factors (IGFs) stimulate growth rate in a number of animal species and are likely to contribute to genetic variations of growth potential. The present study was designed to link levels of IGF-I and IGF-II mRNA and peptides with growth rate in divergently selected genotypes of chickens with high (HG) or low (LG) growth rates. Circulating IGF-I and -II and hepatic mRNA levels were measured under...
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