Abstract
Summary
Alterations in heart rate, blood pressures, pulse pressure, mean electrical axis, hematocrit, plasma volume, interstitial fluid volume and total blood volume were measured and statistically analyzed in adult chickens receiving pharmacological doses of bovine insulin. Multiple-group discriminant analysis techniques proved valuable in a critical analysis of the data obtained. Cardiovascular alterations or shifts in body fluid volumes do not appear of sufficient magnitude to explain the so-called “avian resistance” to exogenous insulin.
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