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Foci of Altered Hepatocytes, Rat

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Digestive System

Part of the book series: Monographs on Pathology of Laboratory Animals ((LABORATORY))

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Foci of altered hepatocytes are not visible with the naked eye.

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  1. New England Regional Primate Research Center, Harvard Medical School, One Pine Hill Drive, Southborough, MA, 01772, USA

    Thomas Carlyle Jones D.V.M., D.Sc. (Professor of Comparative Pathology, Emeritus) & Ronald Duncan Hunt D.V.M. (Professor of Comparative Pathology) (Professor of Comparative Pathology, Emeritus) &  (Professor of Comparative Pathology)

  2. Institut für Experimentelle Pathologie, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Konstanty-Gutschow-Strasse 8, 3000, Hannover 61, Federal Republic of Germany

    Ulrich Mohr M. D. (Professor of Experimental Pathology) (Professor of Experimental Pathology)

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Bannasch, P., Zerban, H., Hacker, H.J. (1985). Foci of Altered Hepatocytes, Rat. In: Jones, T.C., Mohr, U., Hunt, R.D. (eds) Digestive System. Monographs on Pathology of Laboratory Animals. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-96910-2_2

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