Bone biology and skeletal disorders in poultry
By: [edited by] C.C. Whitehead.
Contributors: Whitehead, C. C.
Series: Poultry science symposium -- no. 23.
Publisher: Carfax Pub. Co.; Carfax Publishing Co.
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxfordshire
Language: eng
Number of pages: 374
Subjects: Poultry -- Diseases -- Congresses.; Bones -- Diseases -- Congresses.; Bone Diseases -- veterinary -- Congresses.; Poultry Diseases -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.
Table of contents: value: General bone biology; value: Bone growth and turnover / N. Loveridge, B.M. Thomson and C. Farquharson; value: Matrix formation and mineralisation in bone / S.Y. Ali; value: Bone remodelling: regulation by systemic and local factors / J.S. Price and R.G.G. Russell; value: Functional load-bearing as a controlling influence for fracture resistance in the skeleton / L.E. Lanyon; value: Factors involved in the local regulation of bone growth / B.A. Watkins; value: Role of vitamin D in poultry bone biology / S. Hurwitz; value: Calcium homeostasis and mineral turnover in the laying hen / S.C. Miller; value: Skeletal disorders of poultry; value: Non-infectious skeletal disorders of poultry: an overview / C. Riddell; value: Disorders of growing birds; value: Abnormalities in the growth of leg bones / B.H. Thorp; value: Nutritional factors and leg disorders / H.M. Edwards, Jr.; value: Management factors in leg disorders / H.L. Classen; value: Genetics of leg disorders / P. Sorensen.; value: (cont) Role of infectious agents in leg abnormalities in growing birds / R.L. Reece; value: Disorders of adult birds; value: Characteristics of osteopenia in hens / C.C. Whitehead and S. Wilson; value: Nutritional and management factors related to osteopenia in laying hens / D.A. Roland and S.K. Rao; value: Musculo-skeletal disease in heavy breeding birds / P.M. Hocking; value: Industrial considerations and research priorities; value: Skeletal damage and bone defects during catching and processing / N.G. Gregory and L.J. Wilkins; value: Impacts of bone problems on the poultry meat industry / M. Pattison; value: Impacts of bone problems on the egg industry / A.M. Beckett; value: Priorities for welfare research / A.J. Perrins.