Haematology and serum biochemistry of the tammar wallaby, Macropus eugenii

Comparative Clinical Pathology

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 229-237

  Mckenzie, S ^a   Deane, E M ^a   Burnett, L ^b  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b ROYAL NORTH SHORE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Age effects; Gender effects; Haematology; Marsupials; Seasonality

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; PLASMA PROTEIN;

AGE; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL CARE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD CHEMISTRY; CELL VOLUME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; EOSINOPHIL; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; FEMALE; HEMATOCRIT; HEMATOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTE DIFFERENTIAL COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MARSUPIAL; MEAN CORPUSCULAR HEMOGLOBIN; MONOCYTE; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; THROMBOCYTE COUNT;

EID: 0036774588     PISSN: 16185641     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s005800200024     Document Type: Article

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