Meeting the standard for rodent caging and bedding

Lab Animal

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 41-45

  Novak, Gary ^a   Lamborn, Carolyn ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

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