Spontaneous exocrine pancreas hypoplasia in specific pathogen-free C3HeB/FeJ and 101/H mouse pups causes steatorrhea and runting

Comparative Medicine

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 210-216

  Cheeseman, Michael T ^a   Chrobot, Nikki ^a   Fray, Martin D ^b   Deeny, Adrian A ^c  

^a Medical Research Council Harwell Institute   (United Kingdom)

^b MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^c Harlan   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; C3H MOUSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXOCRINE PANCREAS HYPOPLASIA; FEMALE; HYPOPLASIA; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; STEATORRHEA; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BLOOD; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; GERMFREE ANIMAL; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GROWTH DISORDER; MICROBIOLOGY; MOUSE STRAIN; NEWBORN; PANCREAS; PATHOLOGY; RODENT DISEASE;

INSULIN;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BLOOD GLUCOSE; GROWTH DISORDERS; INSULIN; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; PANCREAS, EXOCRINE; RODENT DISEASES; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS; STEATORRHEA;

EID: 34447264996     PISSN: 15320820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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