A Simple Exsanguination Method That Minimizes Acute Pre-anesthesia Stress in the Mouse: Evidence Based on Serum Corticosterone Concentrations

Contemporary Topics in Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 73-77

  Shipp, Kimberley ^a   Woodward, Bill D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

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