Dextran Sodium Sulfate-Induced Colitis in Germ-Free IQI/Jic Mice

Experimental Animals

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 387-395

  Kitajima, Shuji ^a   Morimoto, Masatoshi ^a   Sagara, Eiji ^b   Shimizu, Chiharu ^c   Ikeda, Yoshifumi ^c  

^a SAGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU DENTAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^c Yoshitomi Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

Colitis; DSS; Germfree; Mice; Microflora

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; DEXTRAN SULFATE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; COLITIS; DISEASE MODEL; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GERMFREE ANIMAL; IATROGENIC DISEASE; MICROBIOLOGY; MORTALITY; MOUSE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANIMAL; ANTICOAGULANTS; COLITIS; DEXTRAN SULFATE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYSTEM; MICE; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS;

EID: 0035489567     PISSN: 13411357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1538/expanim.50.387     Document Type: Article

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