Assessment of multiple cardiocentesis in ball pythons (Python regius)

Contemporary Topics in Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 35-38

  Isaza, Ramiro ^a,b   Andrews, Gordon A ^a   Coke, Rob L ^a   Hunter, Robert P ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOSIDERIN; HETEROPHILE ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL EUTHANASIA; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; COLLAGEN DISEASE; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; MALE; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PERICARDIAL BIOPSY; PERICARDIOCENTESIS; PERICARDIUM; PIGMENTATION; SNAKE;

ANIMALS; BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION; BOIDAE; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; MALE; PERICARDIUM; PUNCTURES; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

ANIMALIA; PYTHON REGIUS; PYTHONIDAE; SERPENTES;

EID: 10844245574     PISSN: 10600558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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