Use of an activity monitor to detect response to treatment in dogs with osteoarthritis

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 237, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 66-70

  Brown, Dorothy Cimino ^a   Boston, Raymond C ^a   Farrar, John T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBAZOLE DERIVATIVE; CARPROFEN; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

AMBULATORY MONITORING; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; DOG DISEASE; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PAIN ASSESSMENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; CARBAZOLES; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; FEMALE; MALE; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PAIN MEASUREMENT;

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS;

EID: 77954264959     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2460/javma.237.1.66     Document Type: Article

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