Ventral approach to the lumbar spine of the Sprague-Dawley rat

Lab Animal

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 43-45

  Rousseau, Marc Antoine ^a   Bass, Elisa C ^a   Lotz, Jeffrey C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RATTUS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HISTOLOGY; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MALE; METHODOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; SURGERY;

ANIMALS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE;

EID: 4444239788     PISSN: 00937355     EISSN: 15484475     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/laban0604-43     Document Type: Article

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