Fetal ultrasonography: Biometric data from four African primate species

Journal of Medical Primatology

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 38-47

  Bourry, Olivier ^a   Ouwe Missi Oukem Boyer, Odile ^a,b   Blanchard, Anne ^a,c   Rouquet, Pierre ^a  

^a CENTRE INTERNATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉDICALES DE FRANCEVILLE   (Gabon)

^b Centre de Recherche Medicale et Sanitaire Niamey   (Niger)

^c Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Pointe a Pitre   (Guadeloupe)

Author keywords

Chimpanzee; Fetal growth; Gorilla; Mandrill; Non human primates; Patas monkey; Pregnancy; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BABOON; BIOMETRY; BIPARIETAL DISTANCE; CHIMPANZEE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCEBUS; FEMALE; FEMUR; FETUS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS HEART RATE; GESTATIONAL AGE; GORILLA; HOMINID; HUMERUS; MACACA; MANDRILLUS; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BIOMETRY; ERYTHROCEBUS PATAS; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; GORILLA GORILLA; MANDRILLUS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PREGNANCY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

ANIMALIA; ERYTHROCEBUS; ERYTHROCEBUS PATAS; HOMINIDAE; MACACA; MANDRILLUS; MANDRILLUS SPHINX; PAN; PAN TROGLODYTES; PAPIO; PAPIO HAMADRYAS; PRIMATES;

EID: 33645920978     PISSN: 00472565     EISSN: 16000684     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0684.2005.00140.x     Document Type: Article

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