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High intensity, short duration pulling in heavy horses: physiological effects of competition and rapid weight change

BACKGROUND: The Heavy Horse Pull is a competition where teams of two horses pull an increasingly heavy sled for a short distance. Similar to human wrestlers, some horses may undergo rapid weight change in order to enter a lower weight category. The objectives were to study the physiological effects...

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Autores principales: Greco-Otto, Persephone, Massie, Shannon, Shields, Erin, Roy, Marie-France, Pajor, Edmond, Léguillette, Renaud
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5688808/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29116001
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12917-017-1243-9