Comparing the MRI appearance of the lymph nodes and spleen in wild-type and immuno-deficient mouse strains

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Economopoulos, Vasiliki ^a   Noad, Jennifer C ^a   Krishnamoorthy, Shruti ^a   Rutt, Brian K ^b   Foster, Paula J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BRACHIAL LYMPH NODE; C57BL 6 MOUSE; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INGUINAL LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE; LYMPHOID TISSUE; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NOG MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUDE MOUSE; ORGAN SIZE; POPLITEAL LYMPH NODE; SCID MOUSE; SPLEEN; SPLEEN SIZE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; WILD TYPE; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE MUTANT; PATHOLOGY;

MUS; MUS MUSCULUS;

ANIMALS; IMMUNOLOGIC DEFICIENCY SYNDROMES; LYMPH NODES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, NUDE; MICE, SCID; SPLEEN;

EID: 80655128603     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0027508     Document Type: Article

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