Transgenic animals: What about their well-being?

Scandinavian Journal of Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 23, Issue SUPPL. 1, 1996, Pages 287-290

  Van Der Meer, M ^a   Baumans, V ^a   Van Zutphen, L F M ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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