Housing and husbandry of Xenopus for oocyte production

Lab Animal

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 34-39

  Schultz, T Wayne ^a   Dawson, Douglas A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b ASHLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CARE; ANIMAL FOOD; ANIMAL HOUSING; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; BREEDING; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; REVIEW; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TOXICITY TESTING; XENOPUS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; FEMALE; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; TRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALIA; ANURA;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMAL NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; ANIMALS; BREEDING; FEMALE; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MALE; OOCYTES; SPECIMEN HANDLING; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; XENOPUS;

EID: 0037316088     PISSN: 00937355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/laban0203-34     Document Type: Review

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