Transoral intratracheal inoculation method for use with neonatal rats

Comparative Medicine

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 134-137

  Martínez Burnes, Julio ^a,b   López, Alfonso ^a   Lemke, Kip ^a   Dobbin, Greg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE TAMAULIPAS   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HALOTHANE; TOXIC SUBSTANCE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ILLUMINATION; INOCULATION; LUNG ALVEOLUS; LUNG LOBE; MECONIUM; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OTOSCOPE; REPRODUCIBILITY; TRACHEA; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL MODEL; CANNIBALISM; DRUG ADMINISTRATION ROUTE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMAN; INHALATION ANESTHESIA; INSTRUMENTATION; LUNG; MECONIUM ASPIRATION; PARTICLE SIZE; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PILOT STUDY; PREGNANCY; RAT; RAT STRAIN; VISCOSITY;

ANESTHESIA, INHALATION; ANIMAL; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CANNIBALISM; DRUG ADMINISTRATION ROUTES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT, NEWBORN; LIGHTING; LUNG; MECONIUM; MECONIUM ASPIRATION; MODELS, ANIMAL; OTOSCOPES; PARTICLE SIZE; PILOT PROJECTS; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TRACHEA; VISCOSITY;

EID: 0342592141     PISSN: 00236764     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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