An Alternative to Overnight Withholding of Food from Rats

Contemporary Topics in Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 59-61

  Levine, Seymour ^a   Saltzman, Arthur ^a  

^a NATHAN S KLINE INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH   (United States)

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