How should data on murine spontaneous abortion rates be expressed and analyzed?

American Journal of Reproductive Immunology

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 192-196

  Clark, David A ^a,b   Petitbarat, Marie ^c   Chaouat, Gerard ^c,d  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c INSERM   (France)

^d European Union   (Belgium)

Author keywords

CBA DBA 2 model; Spontaneous abortion

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CBA MOUSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DBA 2 MOUSE; EMBRYO RESORPTION; FEMALE; GESTATION PERIOD; MATING; MOUSE; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; ANIMALS; FETAL RESORPTION; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED CBA; MICE, INBRED DBA;

EID: 50149088839     PISSN: 10467408     EISSN: 16000897     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0897.2008.00612.x     Document Type: Article

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