Trends in mortality, body weights and tumor incidences of Wistar rats over 20 years

Experimental and Toxicologic Pathology

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 523-536

  Eiben, R ^a   Bomhard, E M ^a  

^a BAYER AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Body weight, Wistar rats; Carcinogenicity, genetic drift; Food intake, Wistar rats; Mortality, Wistar rats; Overnutrition, Wistar rats; Tumor incidences, long term studies

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CARCINOGENICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; GENETIC DRIFT; MALE; NONHUMAN; OVERNUTRITION; RAT; RAT STRAIN;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 0033391436     PISSN: 09402993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0940-2993(99)80133-X     Document Type: Article

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