When disaster strikes: Rethinking caging materials

Lab Animal

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 24-27

  Koehler, Kara E ^a   Voigt, Robert C ^b   Thomas, Sally ^c   Lamb, Bruce ^a   Urban, Cheryl ^b   Hassold, Terry ^a   Hunt, Patricia A ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Thoren Caging Systems Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYCARBONATE;

ARTICLE; CAGE; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; MATERIALS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NONHUMAN;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0038046171     PISSN: 00937355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/laban0403-24     Document Type: Article

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