Interpretations of faecal concentrations of corticosteroids

Laboratory Animals

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 129-130

  Lepschy, Michael ^a   Touma, Chadi ^a   Palme, Rupert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; CORTICOTROPIN;

DRUG EXCRETION; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FECES ANALYSIS; GALLBLADDER; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMAN; LETTER; NONHUMAN; POULTRY; PRIMATE; RODENT; SWINE;

EID: 79959593405     PISSN: 00236772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/la.2010.010R01     Document Type: Letter

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