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Effects of dietary T3 on growth parameters and hormone levels in normal and sex-linked dwarf chickens.
Domestic animal endocrinology - 1 Oct 1990
Tixier-Boichard M, Decuypere E, Huybrechts L, Kühn E, Mérat P
Abstract excerpt
Tri-iodothyronine (T3) has been administered in the diet, from day of hatch until 8 weeks of age, to sex-linked dwarf and normal chicks of both sexes from a brown-egg slow-growing strain. Feed was supplemented with either 0.1 ppm or 0.5 ppm T3. A significant genotype by treatment interaction was observed on body weight: the effect of T3 in males was significantly positive for dwarfs and null for normals, the...
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