Considerations for defining an acceptable endpoint in toxicological experiments

Lab Animal

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 38-43

  Olfert, Ernest D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

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