The healing effects of a topical phytogenic ointment on insect bite hypersensitivity lesions in horses

Tijdschrift voor Diergeneeskunde

Volumn 136, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 20-26

  Van Den Boom, R ^a,b   Kempenaars, M ^a   Van Sloet Oldruitenborgh Oosterbaan, M M ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Faculty of Veterinary Medicine   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLANT MEDICINAL PRODUCT;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HORSE; HORSE DISEASE; HOSPITALIZATION; HYPERSENSITIVITY; ILLICIUM; INSECT BITE; PATHOLOGY; PHYTOTHERAPY; PRURITUS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TOPICAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; ANIMALS; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; HYPERSENSITIVITY; ILLICIUM; INSECT BITES AND STINGS; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT PREPARATIONS; PRURITUS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALIA; EQUIDAE; HEXAPODA;

EID: 78951488067     PISSN: 00407453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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