Establishment of blood analyte intervals for laboratory mice and rats by use of a portable clinical analyzer

Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 47-52

  Stender, Rachell N ^a   Engler, Whitney J F ^a   Braun, Thomas M ^a   Hankenson, F Claire ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORIDE; GLUCOSE; HEMOGLOBIN; HEPARIN; LITHIUM; NITROGEN; POTASSIUM; SODIUM; UREA;

ANALYZER; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TESTING REFINEMENT; ARTICLE; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD SAMPLING; CALCULATION; CHLORIDE BLOOD LEVEL; DEVICE; FEMALE; GLOMERULOSCLEROSIS; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEMATOCRIT; HYPERGLYCEMIA; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NORMAL VALUE; PHENOTYPE; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT; POTASSIUM BLOOD LEVEL; RAT; REFERENCE VALUE; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TIME; TUBE; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL;

ANIMALS; BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BLOOD UREA NITROGEN; CHLORIDES; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHIES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBINS; MICE; POTASSIUM; RATS; REFERENCE VALUES; SODIUM;

ANIMALIA; MUS; RATTUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 34447550403     PISSN: 15596109     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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