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Endotoxin stress responses in chickens from different genetic lines. 1. Sickness, behavioral, and physical responses.
Poultry science - 1 May 2004
Cheng H W, Freire R, Pajor E A
Abstract excerpt
Genetic variation in response to lipopolysaccharide (LPS) challenge was studied in chicken lines divergently selected for high (HGPS) and low (LGPS) group productivity and survivability resulting from cannibalism and flightiness in colony cages and in a Dekalb XL (DXL) commercial line. Six-week-old chicks were randomly assigned to control or experimental groups and were injected intravenously with Escherichia...
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