The Cotton Rat in Biomedical Research

Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 337-345

  Faith, Robert E ^a   Montgomery, Charles A ^a   Durfee, W John ^a   Aguilar Cordova, Estuardo ^a   Wyde, Phillip R ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; DISEASE MODEL; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NONHUMAN; RAT; REVIEW; RICKETTSIOSIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; VIRUS INFECTION;

ADENOVIRIDAE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENE THERAPY; GENETIC VECTORS; MALE; RATS; RESEARCH; RODENT DISEASES; SIGMODONTINAE;

EID: 0031399923     PISSN: 00236764     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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