Evaluation of cecal ligation as a model of mucoid enteropathy in specific-pathogen-free rabbits

Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 174-178

  Hotchkiss, Charlotte E ^a,b   Merritt, Alfred M ^a  

^a University of Florida   (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CECUM; CECUM DISEASE; COLON; DISEASE MODEL; ENTEROPATHY; GERMFREE ANIMAL; INFLAMMATION; LIGATION; MUCUS; NECROSIS; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN LOSING GASTROENTEROPATHY; RABBIT; SECRETION;

ANIMALS; CECAL DISEASES; CECUM; COLON; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; INFLAMMATION; INTESTINAL DISEASES; LIGATION; MUCUS; NECROSIS; PROTEIN-LOSING ENTEROPATHIES; RABBITS; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS;

EID: 0030120091     PISSN: 00236764     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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