Comparison of the lateral tail vein and the retro-orbital venous sinus as routes of intravenous drug delivery in a transgenic mouse model

Lab Animal

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 26-32

  Steel, Christina D ^a   Stephens, Amber L ^a   Hahto, Suzanne M ^a   Singletary, Sylvia J ^a   Ciavarra, Richard P ^a  

^a EASTERN VIRGINIA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AP20187; DRUG DERIVATIVE; TACROLIMUS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; BONE MARROW; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GERMFREE ANIMAL; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MACROPHAGE; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MOUSE; ORBIT; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SPLEEN; TAIL; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; VASCULARIZATION; VEIN;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BONE MARROW; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MACROPHAGES; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MODELS, ANIMAL; ORBIT; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS; SPLEEN; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TACROLIMUS; TAIL; VEINS;

MUS; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 37349092261     PISSN: 00937355     EISSN: 15484475     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/laban0108-26     Document Type: Article

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