Spontaneous Pathology of the Gray Short-Tailed Opossum (Monodelphis domestica)

Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 19-26

  Hubbard, Gene B ^a   Mahaney, Michael C ^b   Gleiser, Chester A ^a   Taylor, Donald E ^b   VandeBerg, John L ^b  

^a SW Found for Biomedical Research ^*  (United States)

^b SOUTHWEST FOUNDATION FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DERMATITIS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; FEMALE; MALE; NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; OPOSSUM; PATHOLOGY; RECTUM PROLAPSE; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; UROGENITAL SYSTEM;

ANIMAL DISEASES; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; FEMALE; LABORATORY ANIMAL SCIENCE; MALE; NEOPLASMS; OPOSSUMS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031036689     PISSN: 00236764     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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