Body Surface Area Prediction in Normal, Hypermuscular, and Obese Mice

Journal of Surgical Research

Volumn 153, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 326-331

  Cheung, Michael C ^a   Spalding, Paul B ^a   Gutierrez, Juan C ^a   Balkan, Wayne ^a,b   Namias, Nicholas ^a   Koniaris, Leonidas G ^a   Zimmers, Teresa A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

allometry; body composition; body weights and measure; burn; genetically modified mice; Meeh constant; pharmacokinetics; skin

Indexed keywords

MYOSTATIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY SURFACE; BODY WEIGHT; BURN; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DELETION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY SURFACE AREA; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MODELS, ANIMAL; MUSCLES; OBESITY; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 64849109000     PISSN: 00224804     EISSN: 10958673     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2008.05.002     Document Type: Article

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