Descriptive urological record of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in the wild and limitations associated with using multi-reagent dipstick test strips

Journal of Medical Primatology

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 187-196

  Kaur, Taranjit ^a   Huffman, Michael A ^b  

^a VIRGINIA MARYLAND REGIONAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (United States)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dipstick test strips; Health monitoring; Multi reagent urine dipsticks; Physiological status; Urinalysis; Wild chimpanseez

Indexed keywords

BILIRUBIN; ESTERASE; KETONE; NITRATE; REAGENT;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CHIMPANZEE; COLORIMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; HEALTH STATUS; LEUKOCYTE; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MONITORING; NONHUMAN; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN URINE LEVEL; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; RENAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; TEST STRIP; URINALYSIS; URINE LEVEL; URINE PH; UROLOGIC EXAMINATION; WILD SPECIES;

ANIMALS; BILIRUBIN; COLORIMETRY; ERYTHROCYTES; ESTERASES; GLYCOSURIA; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; KETONES; LEUKOCYTES; NITRITES; PAN TROGLODYTES; PROTEINURIA; REAGENT STRIPS; TANZANIA; URINE;

PAN (APE); PAN TROGLODYTES; TROGLODYTES;

EID: 4344626917     PISSN: 00472565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0684.2004.00070.x     Document Type: Article

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