Putting dietary control to the test: increasing bioassay sensitivity by reducing variability

Lab Animal

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 35-38

  Seng, John E ^a   Allaben, William T ^b   Nichols, Martin L ^c   Bryant, Barbara D ^d   Ulmer, Clyde ^d   Contrera, Joseph F ^e   Leakey, Julian E A ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR TOXICOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b NCTR   (United States)

^c Bionetics Corporation   (United States)

^d FDA ^*  (United States)

^e CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

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