Mouse estrous cycle identification tool and images

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Byers, Shannon L ^a   Wiles, Michael V ^a   Dunn, Sadie L ^a   Taft, Robert A ^a  

^a JACKSON LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; C57BL 6 MOUSE; CBYB6F1 J MOUSE; DIESTRUS; ESTRUS; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; IMAGING; METESTRUS; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PROESTRUS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; VAGINA CYTOLOGY; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CYTOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; VAGINA;

AGOUTI; MUS;

ANIMALS; ESTROUS CYCLE; FEMALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PREGNANCY; VAGINA;

EID: 84859726256     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0035538     Document Type: Article

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