Article
Effects of monosodium glutamate on lines of chickens having different juvenile exponential growth rates.
Life sciences - 1 Jan 1991
Sizemore F G, Barbato G F
Abstract excerpt
MSG (4 mg/g BW) or the equivalent molar ratio of NaCl were injected subcutaneously into chicks from four populations of chickens derived from a double selection experiment [(1) low exponential growth rate (EGR) to 14 days of age (14L), (2) high EGR to 14 days of age (14H), (3) low EGR to 42 days...
Topics
- Adipose Tissue
- Animals
- Body Weight
- Chickens
- Female
- Genotype
- Growth
- Least-Squares Analysis
- Male
- Sex Characteristics
- Sodium Glutamate