Storage alters feline bronchoalveolar lavage fluid cytological analysis

Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 94-100

  Nafe, Laura A ^a   DeClue, Amy E ^a   Reinero, Carol R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CAT; CAT DISEASE; CELL COUNT; CYTODIAGNOSIS; CYTOLOGY; EOSINOPHIL; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LUNG LAVAGE; METHODOLOGY; NEUTROPHIL; REPRODUCIBILITY; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; TEMPERATURE; TIME;

ANIMALS; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CAT DISEASES; CATS; CELL COUNT; CYTODIAGNOSIS; EOSINOPHILS; NEUTROPHILS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; SPECIMEN HANDLING; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS;

FELIDAE;

EID: 79251597368     PISSN: 1098612X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfms.2010.09.017     Document Type: Article

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