Colorimetric assay of equine peripheral lymphocyte blastogenesis using MTT

Journal of Equine Science

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 63-66

  Kondo, Takashi ^a   Sugiura, Takeo ^a   Kamada, Masanobu ^a   Imagawa, Hiroshi ^a  

^a EQUINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blastogenesis; Colorimetric assay; Equine lymphocyte; MTT

Indexed keywords

EID: 0345229301     PISSN: 13403516     EISSN: 13477501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1294/jes.7.63     Document Type: Article

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