Mouse Models as Predictors of Human Responses: Evolutionary Medicine

Current Pathobiology Reports

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 219-223

  Uhl, Elizabeth W ^a   Warner, Natalie J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b Warner Consulting   (United States)

Author keywords

Disease definitions; Evolution; Mouse models

Indexed keywords

EID: 84948961521     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2167485X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40139-015-0086-y     Document Type: Review

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