A rat embryo staging scale for the generation of donor tissue for neural transplantation

Cell Transplantation

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 535-542

  Torres, E M ^a   Weyrauch, U M ^a   Sutcliffe, R ^b   Dunnett, S B ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CHARLES RIVER LABORATORIES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Donor age; Dopamine graft; Embryo staging

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AGE DETERMINATION; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CROWN RUMP LENGTH; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DONOR; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; MALE; MATING SYSTEM; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; STAGING; TECHNIQUE; TISSUE CULTURE;

RATTUS;

EID: 46549089622     PISSN: 09636897     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3727/096368908785096006     Document Type: Article

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