Optimal age at fostering for derivation of Helicobacter hepaticus-free mice

Comparative Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 259-264

  Singletary, Kem B ^a   Kloster, Cynthia A ^b   Baker, David G ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNINGTON BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CECUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FECES ANALYSIS; FOLLOW UP; FOSTER CARE; GERMFREE ANIMAL; HELICOBACTER HEPATICUS; LIVER; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROGENY; WEANING;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANIMALS, SUCKLING; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; FECES; FEMALE; GERM-FREE LIFE; HELICOBACTER HEPATICUS; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 0042819940     PISSN: 15320820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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