Can this integral be written in terms of special functions?

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I'm trying to find some nice expression for integrals of the form $$ I(a,b,c)=\int_{-\infty}^{\infty} dx \frac{1}{({a x^4+ b x^2+c})^{3/2}}. $$

So far I failed to find a rewriting of this in terms of special function (elliptic, hypergeometric, Bessel..) but something tells me that this should be possible. Does anyone know if this is possible?

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If the denominator has a real zero, the integral diverges. So assume the denominator has no real zeros. Factor it. For example, we get this if $u,v>0$, $u \ne v$: $$ \int_{-\infty }^{\infty }\! \frac{{\rm d}x}{\left( \left( {x}^{2}+u \right) \left( { x}^{2}+v \right) \right) ^{3/2}}\, ={\frac {2}{\sqrt {v}\; \left( u-v \right) ^{2}\;u} \left[ \left( u+v \right) {\rm E} \left( \sqrt {1-{\frac {u}{v}}} \;\right) -2u\;{\rm K} \left( \sqrt {1-{\frac {u}{v}}} \;\right) \right] } $$ and in case $u=v$ we get $(3/8)\pi u^{-5/2}$. The complete elliptic integrals E and K may be found here.