Mouse Embryo Yield and Viability after Euthanasia by CO2 Inhalation or Cervical Dislocation

Comparative Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 510-513

  Howell, Robert L ^a   Donegan, Catherine L ^a   Pinkert, Carl A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARBON DIOXIDE BREATHING; CERVICAL SPINE DISLOCATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CROSS BREEDING; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EUTHANASIA; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INBRED STRAIN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MALE; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; TECHNOLOGY; TRANSGENICS;

ADMINISTRATION, INHALATION; ANIMAL WELFARE; ANIMALS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYO; EMBRYO LOSS; EMBRYO RESEARCH; EUTHANASIA, ANIMAL; FEMALE; LABORATORY ANIMAL SCIENCE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PREGNANCY; SPINAL INJURIES;

EID: 0242552757     PISSN: 15320820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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