Effect of cage size on ultradian locomotor rhythms of laboratory mice

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1253-1258

  Poon, Angela M S ^b   Wu, B M ^b   Poon, Paul W F ^a   Cheung, Emily P W ^b   Chan, Francis H Y ^b   Lam, F K ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Cage size; Continuous wavelet transform; Locomotion; Ultradian rhythms; Video monitoring

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ENVIRONMENT; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRADIAN RHYTHM;

EID: 0030697987     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9384(97)00305-3     Document Type: Article

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