A simple procedure for estimation of total body surface area and determination of a new value of Meeh's constant in rats

Laboratory Animals

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 40-45

  Gouma, E ^a   Simos, Y ^a   Verginadis, I ^a   Lykoudis, E ^a   Evangelou, A ^a   Karkabounas, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Meeh's formula; Rat; TBSA

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY SURFACE; BODY WEIGHT; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; RAT;

ANIMALS; BIOMETRY; BODY SURFACE AREA; BODY WEIGHT; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; FEMALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 84858379972     PISSN: 00236772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/la.2011.011021     Document Type: Article

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