Endpoint refinement for total body irradiation of C57BL/6 mice

Comparative Medicine

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 22-28

  Nunamaker, Elizabeth A ^a   Artwohl, James E ^a   Anderson, RobertJ ^a   Fortman, Jeffrey D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARATHYROID HORMONE;

ACCURACY; ACUTE RADIATION SYNDROME; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; MALE; MORTALITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; RADIATION DOSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

ACUTE RADIATION SYNDROME; ANIMAL WELFARE; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENDPOINT DETERMINATION; EYE; LETHAL DOSE 50; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; POSTURE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; WHOLE-BODY IRRADIATION;

EID: 84875015651     PISSN: 15320820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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