Increased incidence of vaginal septum in C57BL/6J mice since 1976

Comparative Medicine

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 418-421

  Gearhart, Sonya ^a   Kalishman, Jennifer ^a   Melikyan, Hranush ^a   Mason, Carol ^a   Kohn, Dennis F ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL RIGHTS; ANIMAL TESTING REDUCTION; ANIMAL TESTING REFINEMENT; ANIMAL TESTING REPLACEMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANIMAL USE; ARTICLE; BREEDING; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT MALFORMATION; FEMALE INFERTILITY; INCIDENCE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; VAGINA DISEASE; VAGINAL SEPTUM;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RODENT DISEASES; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; VAGINA;

EID: 4143061808     PISSN: 15320820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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