Using vaginal wall impedance to determine estrous cycle phase in Lewis rats

Lab Animal

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 122-128

  Jaramillo, Lorenza María ^a   Balcazar, Ignacio Briceño ^b   Duran, Camilo ^a  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD JAVERIANA   (Colombia)

^b Facultad de Medicina   (Colombia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; ESTRUS; ESTRUS CYCLE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; IMPEDANCE; INCIDENCE; LEWIS RAT; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROESTRUS; PSEUDOPREGNANCY; RAT; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; VAGINA; VAGINA SMEAR;

ANIMALS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ESTROUS CYCLE; ESTRUS DETECTION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; INCIDENCE; MALE; PROESTRUS; PSEUDOPREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; VAGINA; VAGINAL SMEARS;

RATTUS;

EID: 84860181145     PISSN: 00937355     EISSN: 15484475     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/laban0512-122     Document Type: Article

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