Estimation of mouse fetal weight by ultrasonography: Application from clinic to laboratory

Laboratory Animals

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 225-230

  Nguyen, Thang M ^a   Nakamura, Hitomi ^a   Wakabayashi, Atsuko ^a   Kanagawa, Takeshi ^a   Koyama, Shinsuke ^a   Tsutsui, Tateki ^a   Hamasaki, Toshimitsu ^a   Kimura, Tadashi ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Estimated fetal weight; Mouse; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS WEIGHT; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; TRANSDUCER;

ABDOMEN; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CEPHALOMETRY; FEMALE; FETAL WEIGHT; HEAD; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; PREGNANCY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 84865299494     PISSN: 00236772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/la.2012.011117     Document Type: Article

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