Murine "model" Monotheism: An Iconoclast at the Altar of Mouse

Circulation Research

Volumn 117, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 921-925

  Libby, Peter ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

comorbidity; hygiene hypothesis; mice; microbiota; research

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CONGENIC STRAIN; GENETIC MANIPULATION; HUMAN; HYGIENE HYPOTHESIS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; LABORATORY TEST; LIFE CYCLE; MICROBIOME; MOUSE MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; AGE; ANIMAL; CARDIOLOGY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; DISEASE MODEL; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; MOUSE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PROCEDURES; RISK FACTOR; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; CARDIOLOGY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, CONGENIC; PHENOTYPE; RISK FACTORS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSLATIONAL MEDICAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84946210550     PISSN: 00097330     EISSN: 15244571     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.115.307523     Document Type: Review

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