[Involvement of the creatine kinase test in the selection scheme of pig breeding programs].
With the increase of meat-quantity in the German pig-breeds in the sixties and seventies, more and more deficiency in meat-quality and stress appeared. It is based on a latent exertional myopathy. A result is an increase of Creatin-Kinase in the blood-plasma. It can be investigated by an analysis in a laboratory. The results from this analysis supplies us with information about the susceptibility to stress of the investigated pig. This physiological proceeding is consistently used in the CK-test to select stress-stable pigs. In HULSENBERG this test is used since the end of the seventies with great success.
Presuhn
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Schaumann Forschungszentrum Hülsenberg.
Richter
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Krieter
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J
D000822:Animal Husbandry; D000818:Animals; D001947:Breeding; D009202:Cardiomyopathies / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000662:veterinary*; D003402:Creatine Kinase / Q000097:blood*; D004198:Disease Susceptibility; D008460:Meat / Q000592:standards*; D013312:Stress, Physiological / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000662:veterinary*; D013552:Swine; D013553:Swine Diseases
D003402:Creatine Kinase