Numerical variation of teeth in the wild house musk shrew Suncus murinus captured from Nagasaki, Japan

Archives of Oral Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 617-621

  Jogahara, Takamichi ^a,b   Oda, Sen ichi ^a   Kawai, Tatsushi ^b   Hanamura, Hajime ^b   Koyasu, Kazuhiro ^b  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b AICHI GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Congenital tooth absence; Dental anomaly; Suncus murinus; Three dimensional analysis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; HISTOLOGY; HYPODONTIA; JAPAN; MALE; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PERIODONTITIS; SHREW; TOOTH; TOOTH PLAQUE;

ANIMALS; ANODONTIA; CHRONIC DISEASE; DENTAL PLAQUE; JAPAN; MALE; PERIODONTITIS; SHREWS; TOOTH; X-RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY;

SUNCUS; SUNCUS MURINUS;

EID: 43049181928     PISSN: 00039969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.archoralbio.2008.01.013     Document Type: Article

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