Euthanasia of neonatal mice with carbon dioxide

Comparative Medicine

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 275-281

  Pritchett, Kathleen ^a   Corrow, Dorcas ^b   Stockwell, Jason ^c   Smith, Abigail ^d  

^a CHARLES RIVER LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b JACKSON LABORATORY   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE;

AMBIENT AIR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DEATH; EUTHANASIA; FEMALE; INBRED STRAIN; MALE; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OUTBRED STRAIN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; AGE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL EUTHANASIA; ANIMAL WELFARE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; EXPOSURE; INHALATION ANESTHESIA; LABORATORY; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE STRAIN; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TIME;

AGE FACTORS; ANESTHESIA, INHALATION; ANIMAL WELFARE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANIMALS, OUTBRED STRAINS; CARBON DIOXIDE; EUTHANASIA, ANIMAL; INHALATION EXPOSURE; LABORATORY ANIMAL SCIENCE; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 24344472269     PISSN: 15320820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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