Spontaneous lesions in aged captive raccoons (Procyon lotor)

Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 322-325

  Hamir, Amir N ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL ANIMAL DISEASE CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRON;

AGING; AMYLOIDOSIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEGENERATION; BREEDING; CHOROID PLEXUS; FEMALE; GASTRITIS; INCIDENTAL FINDING; INFLAMMATORY CELL; LIVER; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NONHUMAN; PSAMMOMA BODY; RACCOON; SPLEEN; UNITED STATES;

AGING; ANIMALS; BREEDING; CHOROID PLEXUS; FEMALE; HEART; IOWA; IRON; LIVER; MALE; MYOCARDIUM; NERVOUS SYSTEM; RACCOONS; SPLEEN;

ANIMALIA; PROCYON; PROCYON LOTOR;

EID: 79960645697     PISSN: 15596109     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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