An immunological assessment of group-housed rabbits

Laboratory Animals

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 362-372

  Turner, R J ^a   Held, S D E ^a   Hirst, J E ^a   Billinghurst, G ^a   Wootton, R J ^a  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antibody production; Behaviour; Group housing; Immunocompetence; Rabbits; Stress

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENT;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; CHEMOLUMINESCENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HOUSING; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNE FUNCTION TEST; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; LEUKOCYTE FUNCTION; MITOGENICITY; NONHUMAN; RABBIT; STRESS;

EID: 0030730031     PISSN: 00236772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/002367797780596194     Document Type: Article

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