A container for transporting small laboratory animals for magnetic resonance imaging

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 144, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 143-146

  Zhan, Hua ^a   Tada, Tsuyoshi ^a   Fujikura, Eiji ^b   Matsumoto, Kiyoshi ^c   Tanaka, Yuichiro ^a   Hongo, Kazuhiro ^a  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Specified Medical Corporation Jisenkai Aizawa Hospital   (Japan)

^c SHINSHU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Container; Isolation; Laboratory animal; Mouse; MRI; Rat

Indexed keywords

PROPYLENE; RUBBER;

AEROSOL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENT; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; INFECTION PREVENTION; MALE; MICROORGANISM; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SAFETY;

EID: 17444376443     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2004.10.008     Document Type: Article

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