Thermal shock in a colony of South African clawed frogs (Xenopus laevis)

Veterinary Record

Volumn 152, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 336-337

  Green, S L ^a   Moorhead, R C ^a   Bouley, D M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DYING; EOSINOPENIA; ERYTHROCYTOSIS; FEMALE; FROG; HEAT SHOCK; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; NEUTROPHILIA; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; SEPSIS; SHORT SURVEY; SUDDEN DEATH; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; VIRUS INFECTION; WATER QUALITY; WATER TEMPERATURE; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANURA; XENOPUS (GENUS); XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0037444580     PISSN: 00424900     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/vr.152.11.336     Document Type: Short Survey

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