Reference intervals and age-related Changes for platelet count, mean platelet volume and plateletcrit in healthy pre-weaning piglets in Italy

Journal of Veterinary Medicine Series A: Physiology Pathology Clinical Medicine

Volumn 50, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 466-469

  Faustini, M ^a,b   Bronzo, V ^b   Maffeo, G ^a,b   Russo, V ^a,b   Munari, E ^a,b   Vigo, D ^a,b  

^a Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Veterinarie per la Sicurezza Alimentare   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOROCCAN PEPPER VIRUS; PIERIS BRASSICAE;

AGE; AGING; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; MALE; NEWBORN; REFERENCE VALUE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SWINE; THROMBOCYTE; THROMBOCYTE COUNT;

AGE FACTORS; AGING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BLOOD PLATELETS; FEMALE; MALE; PLATELET COUNT; REFERENCE VALUES; SEX FACTORS; SWINE;

EID: 2342590036     PISSN: 0931184X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1439-0442.2003.00581.x     Document Type: Article

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