Electrolytic ablation of the rat pancreas: A feasibility trial

BMC Gastroenterology

Volumn 1, Issue , 2001, Pages

  Fosh, Beverley G ^a   Finch, Jonathon Guy ^a   Anthony, Adrian A ^a   Texler, Michael ^b   Maddern, Guy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLASE; GLUCOSE;

AMYLASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; ELECTROLYSIS; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; INOPERABLE CANCER; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS TUMOR; RAT; REPRODUCIBILITY; SAFETY; SURVIVAL; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR NECROSIS; ANIMAL; CATHETER ABLATION; PANCREAS; PATHOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; CATHETER ABLATION; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; PANCREAS; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 18744380974     PISSN: 1471230X     EISSN: 1471230X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-230X-1-9     Document Type: Article

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