Spontaneous Lesions in Control B6C3F1 Mice and Recommended Sectioning of Male Accessory Sex Organs

Toxicologic Pathology

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 228-234

  Suwa, Takahiko ^a   Nyska, Abraham ^a   Haseman, Joseph K ^b   Mahler, Joel F ^a   Maronpot, Robert R ^a  

^a Laboratory of Immunobiology   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Background; pathology; prostate; rodent; seminal vesicle

Indexed keywords

ACCESSORY SEX ORGAN; ADENOCARCINOMA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARCINOGENICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPITHELIUM HYPERPLASIA; GRANULAR CELL TUMOR; INFLAMMATION; INJURY; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE DISEASE; SEMINAL VESICLE; TISSUE SLICE; TOXICITY;

ANIMALS; MALE; MICE; PROSTATE; SEMINAL VESICLES;

ANIMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 0036213907     PISSN: 01926233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/019262302753559560     Document Type: Article

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