Body Weight and Composition in the Sprague Dawley Rat: Comparison of Three Outbred Sources

Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 67-70

  Klinger, Mark M ^a   MacCarter, Gregory D ^a   Boozer, Carol N ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; RAT;

AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY WATER; BODY WEIGHT; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; MALE; OBESITY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REFERENCE VALUES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0029877349     PISSN: 00236764     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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