Blood lipids in young and adult Watanabe Heritable Hyperlipidemic (WHHL) and adult normolipidemic rabbits - Strain and sex differences

Scandinavian Journal of Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 47-53

  Mortensen, Alicja ^a   Frandsen, Henrik ^a  

^a National Food Agency of Denmark   (Denmark)

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