The use of the hairless guinea pig in tattoo research

Contemporary Topics in Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 35-38

  Fox, Matthew A ^a   McNichols, Roger J ^a,c   Gowda, Ashok ^a   Motamedi, Massoud ^b  

^a BIOTEX INC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACITRACIN; BUPRENORPHINE;

AFTERCARE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIENCE; GUINEA PIG; HAIR; LASER; MALE; NONHUMAN; TATTOO;

AFTERCARE; ANESTHETICS, INHALATION; ANIMALS; GUINEA PIGS; ISOFLURANE; MODELS, ANIMAL; NEEDLES; TATTOOING;

ANIMALIA; CAVIA PORCELLUS; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 4544369474     PISSN: 10600558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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