Predicting and monitoring colitis development in mice by micro-computed tomography

Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 491-499

  Fredin, Maria Fritsch ^a,b   Hultin, Leif ^a   Hyberg, Gina ^a   Rehnström, Erika ^a   Hörnquist, Elisabeth Hultgren ^b   Melgar, Silvia ^a,c   Jansson, Liselotte ^a  

^a ASTRAZENECA R AND D   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c APC LTD   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Colitis; Colon wall thickness; DSS; IBD; Micro CT; Mouse

Indexed keywords

DEXTRAN SULFATE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COLITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; ENTERITIS; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INTESTINE WALL; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; COLITIS; COLON; DEXTRAN SULFATE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; INFLAMMATION; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICRORADIOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 42449128334     PISSN: 10780998     EISSN: 15364844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ibd.20343     Document Type: Article

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