Novel husbandry techniques support survival of naked mole rat (Heterocephalus glaber) pups

Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 89-91

  Ke, Zhonghe ^a   Vaidya, Amita ^a   Ascher, Jill ^b   Seluanov, Andrei ^a   Gorbunova, Vera ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRTH; HETEROCEPHALUS; LACTATION DISORDER; MILK; MILK PRODUCTION; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; RAT; SUCKLING ANIMAL; SURVIVAL; WEANING;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, SUCKLING; BREEDING; FEMALE; LONGEVITY; MOLE RATS; RATS; WEANING;

EID: 84892551605     PISSN: 15596109     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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