Easy Procedure for Milk Collection in Lactating Rats

Contemporary Topics in Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 80-83

  Delongeas, Jean Luc ^a   Trabarel, Corine ^a   Guittin, Pierre ^a  

^a SANOFI   (France)

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