Article
Effects of ractopamine on genetically obese and lean pigs.
Journal of animal science - 1 Nov 1990
Yen J T, Mersmann H J, Hill D A, Pond W G
Abstract excerpt
Twenty-eight genetically obese and 24 lean barrows (65.0 and 68.7 kg average BW, respectively) were allotted within genotype to a 16% CP corn-soybean meal basal diet or this basal diet + 20 ppm ractopamine (a phenethanolamine beta-adrenergic agonist) and allowed ad libitum access to feed for 48 d...
Topics
- Adipose Tissue
- Adrenergic beta-Antagonists
- Animals
- Blood Glucose
- Blood Urea Nitrogen
- Eating
- Fatty Acids, Nonesterified
- Genotype
- Growth Substances
- Male
- Muscles
- Organ Size
- Phenethylamines
- Swine
- Triglycerides
- Viscera
- Weight Gain