A new small animal model for the study of spine fusion in the sand rat: Pilot studies

Laboratory Animals

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 272-277

  Gruber, Helen E ^a   Gordon, Brian ^b   Williams, Cliff ^a   Ingram, Jane A ^a   Norton, H James ^a   Hanley Jr , Edward N ^a  

^a CAROLINAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b OKLAHOMA MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Histology; Intervertebral disc; Sand rat; Spine fusion

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; EXPERIMENTAL RAT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; LUMBAR DISK; LUMBAR SPINE; NONHUMAN; PSAMMOMYS OBESUS; RAT; SPINE FUSION; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY;

AGE FACTORS; AGING; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GERBILLINAE; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; PILOT PROJECTS; SPINAL FUSION;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 67650511180     PISSN: 00236772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/la.2008.008055     Document Type: Article

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