Establishment and evaluation of three necrotizing enterocolitis models in premature rats

Molecular Medicine Reports

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1333-1338

  Zhou, Wei ^a   Zheng, Xiao Hui ^a   Rong, Xiao ^a   Huang, Long Guang ^a  

^a GUANGZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Animal model; Evaluation; Necrotizing enterocolitis; Premature rat

Indexed keywords

LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; NITROGEN; OXYGEN; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE SIMULATION; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HYPOXIA; INTESTINE; KIDNEY PARENCHYMA; LIVER; LUNG; MALE; MICROSCOPY; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; NONHUMAN; RAT; REPRODUCIBILITY; STAINING;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANOXIA; ASPHYXIA; COLD TEMPERATURE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENTEROCOLITIS, NECROTIZING; FEMALE; ILEUM; INTESTINES; KIDNEY; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; LIVER; LUNG; MALE; NITROGEN; RATS;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 80053122001     PISSN: 17912997     EISSN: 17913004     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/mmr.2011.581     Document Type: Article

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