Evidence should trump intuition by peferring inbred strains to outbred stocks in preclinical research

ILAR Journal

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 399-404

  Festing, Michael F W ^a  

^a MRC TOXICOLOGY UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; MUS; RATTUS;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; INBRED MOUSE STRAIN; INBRED RAT STRAIN; METHODOLOGY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 84928179335     PISSN: 10842020     EISSN: 19306180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ilar/ilu036     Document Type: Article

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