Five experiments for this thesis were conducted to characterize organic Mn sources chemically, and investigate the effects of either dietary Mn source and level or intravenously injected Mn source on growth performance, incidence of leg abnormality, tissue Mn content, MnSOD activity in heart mitochondria, and its gene expression, so as to evaluate their relative bioavailabilities for broilers.
Experiment 1. Studies of chemical characteristics for organic manganese sources
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