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The use of the pig as an animal model to study problems associated with low birthweight
Laboratory Animals
|October 1, 1975
Abstract:
Attention is drawn to some of the consequences associated with the postnatal development of low birthweight human infants and the use of the piglet as a model to study such problems. A description is given of the production and methods of rearing of these animals along with an outline of studies currently in progress.