Leprosy in hypertensive nude rats (SHR/NCrj-rnu)1

International Journal of Leprosy and Other Mycobacterial Diseases

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 435-445

  Yogi, Yasuko ^a   Banba, Tomoko ^b   Kobayashi, Masanori ^c   Katoh, Hideki ^d   Jahan, Nilufar ^a   Endoh, Masumi ^a   Nomaguchi, Hiroko ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^b Tokyo Kiyose Sch for Med Technol   (Japan)

^c Softron Co Ltd   (Japan)

^d CENTRAL INSTITUTE FOR EXPERIMENTAL ANIMALS   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HYPERTENSION; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; LEPROSY; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; NONHUMAN; NUDE MOUSE; RAT;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CROSSES, GENETIC; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; FEMALE; GENITALIA, MALE; HINDLIMB; INBREEDING; LEPROSY, LEPROMATOUS; MALE; RATS; RATS, INBRED SHR; RATS, NUDE;

EID: 0033381877     PISSN: 0148916X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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