Effect of Bleeding Site on Clinical Pathologic Parameters in Sprague-Dawley Rats: Retro-orbital Venous Plexus Versus Abdominal Aorta

Contemporary Topics in Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 63-66

  Khan, Kanwar Nasir M ^a   Komocsar, Wendy J ^a   Lazzaro, Nancy C ^a   Senese, Peter B ^a   Hamilton, Paula ^a   Roth, Arthur ^a   Smith, Peter F ^a  

^a PFIZER INC   (United States)

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