Reproductive performance and changes in blood lipids in breeding females and in growing Watanabe heritable hyperlipidaemic and New Zealand white rabbits

Laboratory Animals

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 252-259

  Mortensen, A ^a   Frandsen, H ^a  

^a National Food Agency of Denmark   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Blood lipids; Hyperlipidaemia; Reproductive performance; WHHL rabbit

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; LIPID; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

AGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; FEMALE; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; LACTATION; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; RABBIT; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 0029684111     PISSN: 00236772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/002367796780684854     Document Type: Article

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