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  • Title: [Breeding and care for wild woodchucks (Marmota monax) by indoor and outdoor housing].
    Author: Shiga J, Yamamoto K, Ito M, Koshimizu K.
    Journal: Jikken Dobutsu; 1989 Apr; 38(2):155-8. PubMed ID: 2744103.
    Abstract:
    Woodchuck (Marmota monax) is a very useful animal for studying human diseases such as endocrine, metabolic or cardiovascular diseases. It is regarded especially as the most excellent animal model for human hepatic cell cancer since woodchuck hepatitis virus has various biological characters similar to those of human hepatitis B virus. We have investigated in domestic this wild animals as laboratory experimental animals and succeeded in breeding and rearing in our outdoor facilities.
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