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Elephant’s breast milk contains large amounts of glucosamine

Hand-reared elephant calves that are nursed with milk substitutes sometimes suffer bone fractures, probably due to problems associated with nutrition, exercise, sunshine levels and/or genetic factors. As we were expecting the birth of an Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), we analyzed elephant’s breas...

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Autores principales: TAKATSU, Zenta, TSUDA, Muneya, YAMADA, Akio, MATSUMOTO, Hiroshi, TAKAI, Akira, TAKEDA, Yasuhiro, TAKASE, Mitsunori
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Japanese Society of Veterinary Science 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5383172/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28049867
http://dx.doi.org/10.1292/jvms.16-0450