Progression of ulcerative dermatitis lesions in c57bl/6crl mice and the development of a scoring system for dermatitis lesions

Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 586-593

  Hampton, Anna L ^a   Hish, Gerald A ^a   Aslam, Muhammad N ^b   Rothman, Edward D ^c   Bergin, Ingrid L ^a   Patterson, Kathleen A ^a   Naik, Madhav ^b   Paruchuri, Tejaswi ^b   Varani, James ^b   Rush, Howard G ^a  

^a Unit for Laboratory Animal Medicine   (United States)

^b Medical School   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Character of lesions; COL; S number; Scratching number; UD; Ulcerative dermatitis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DERMATITIS; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARAMETERS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PRURITUS; PYODERMA GANGRENOSUM; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SKIN DEFECT;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; COHORT STUDIES; DERMATITIS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PRURITUS; RODENT DISEASES; SKIN ULCER;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

EID: 84875991079     PISSN: 15596109     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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