Welfare Phenotyping of Genetically-modified Mice

Alternatives to Laboratory Animals

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 181-186

  Rose, Margaret ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b PRINCE OF WALES HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Genetically modified animals; Monitoring; Phenotypic description; Refinement

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TESTING REFINEMENT; ANIMAL WELFARE; DATA BASE; GENOME; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; MONITORING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

EID: 67649536046     PISSN: 02611929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/026119290903700206     Document Type: Review

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