Evaluation of saphenous venipuncture and modified tail-clip blood collection in mice

Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 8-15

  Abatan, Omorodola I ^a   Welch, Kathleen B ^a   Nemzek, Jean A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MOUSE; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; NONHUMAN; SAPHENOUS VEIN; TAIL; VEIN PUNCTURE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION; CHEMISTRY, CLINICAL; CORTICOSTERONE; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC TESTS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; PHLEBOTOMY; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS; TAIL;

MUS;

EID: 44649145955     PISSN: 15596109     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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