Cecum location in rats and the implications for intraperitoneal injections

Lab Animal

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 25-30

  Coria Avila, Genaro A ^a,b   Gavrila, Alex M ^a   Ménard, Shann ^a   Ismail, Nafissa ^a   Pfaus, James G ^a  

^a Concordia University ^*  (Canada)

^b UNIVERSIDAD VERACRUZANA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CECUM; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LONG EVANS RAT; MALE; METHODOLOGY; RAT; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; CECUM; FEMALE; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; MALE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RATS, WISTAR;

RATTUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 34250805954     PISSN: 00937355     EISSN: 15484475     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/laban0707-25     Document Type: Article

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