Safety and blood sample volume and quality of a refined retro-orbital bleeding technique in rats using a lateral approach

Lab Animal

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 63-66

  Sharma, Ashish ^a   Fish, Brian L ^a   Moulder, John E ^a   Medhora, Meetha ^a   Baker, John E ^a   Mader, Marylou ^a   Cohen, Eric P ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; METHODOLOGY; ORBIT; PHLEBOTOMY; RAT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARD; STATISTICS; VASCULARIZATION;

ANIMALS; BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION; ORBIT; PHLEBOTOMY; RATS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84892989748     PISSN: 00937355     EISSN: 15484475     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/laban.432     Document Type: Article

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