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- Title
Physiological Response of Rabbit Bucks to Dietary Fumonisin: Performance, Haematology and Serum Biochemistry.
- Authors
Emmanuel Ewuola; Francis Gbore; Jacob Ogunlade; Ranajit Bandyopadhyay; Gabriel Egbunike
- Abstract
Abstract  Maize grains contaminated with fumonisin, a metabolite of Fusarium verticillioides was incorporated into matured male rabbitsâ diet to evaluate its effects on performance, haematology and serum biochemistry in rabbits. Thirty individually caged crossbred adult rabbit bucks averaging 1.36 ± 0.01 kg (about 22â24-week-old) were randomly allotted to three treatment diets comprising a control diet (containing 0.35 ± 0.02 mg fumonisin/kg) and two test diets containing 12.30 ± 0.16 and 24.56 ± 0.14 mg fumonisin/kg, constituting treatments 1 (low infection), 2 (medium infection) and 3 (high infection), respectively, in a five-week feeding trial. Results showed that the dry matter intake (DMI) (g/rabbit) at the end of the feeding trial was significantly (P PÂ
- Subjects
FUSARIUM oxysporum; TUBERCULARIACEAE; BIOCHEMISTRY; HEMATOLOGY
- Publication
Mycopathologia, 2008, Vol 165, Issue 2, p99
- ISSN
0301-486X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11046-007-9083-y