Supplementary dietary nitric oxide donor (sodium nitroprusside) or inhibitor (N^G-nitro-l-arginine methyl ester) depressed growth performance and ovarian primordial and primary follicles in Japanese quail (Coturnix coturnix japonica) in a dose-dependent manner

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