A simple and inexpensive device for collecting urine samples from rats

Lab Animal

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 39-41

  Demirkan, Arda ^a   Melli, Mehmet ^a  

^a ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; INSTRUMENTATION; LABORATORY; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; METHODOLOGY; RAT; URINALYSIS; URINE;

ANIMALS; LABORATORY ANIMAL SCIENCE; RATS; SPECIMEN HANDLING; URINALYSIS; URINE;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 33846557413     PISSN: 00937355     EISSN: 15484475     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/laban0207-39     Document Type: Article

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