High incidence of scrotal hernias in a closed colony of FVB mice

Comparative Medicine

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 391-394

  Lewis, Lauren A ^a   Huskey, Pamela S ^a   Kusewitt, Donna F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRE RECOMBINASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BACKCROSSING; BREEDING METHOD; CECUM; DISEASE MODEL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HANTAVIRUS; HELICOBACTER; HERNIA; LIFESPAN; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARVOVIRUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROGENY; REOVIRUS; SCROTUM HERNIA; SEMINAL VESICLE; SEROLOGY; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; CROSSES, GENETIC; HERNIA, INGUINAL; INCIDENCE; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; RODENT DISEASES;

EID: 84870875725     PISSN: 15320820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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