Selective breeding of house musk shrew (Suncus murinus) lines in relation to emesis induced by veratrine sulfate

Comparative Medicine

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 281-283

  Ebukuro, Susumu ^a   Wakana, Shigeharu ^a   Hioki, Kyoji ^a   Nomura, Tatsuji ^b  

^a CENTRAL INSTITUTE FOR EXPERIMENTAL ANIMALS   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEVADINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG RESPONSE; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENETIC SELECTION; INSECTIVORE; MALE; NONHUMAN; REARING; VOMITING;

AGING; ANIMALS; BREEDING; FEMALE; MALE; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SHREWS; VERATRINE; VOMITING;

EID: 0033930766     PISSN: 00236764     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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