Housing and Exercise of Dogs: Effects on Behavior, Immune Function, and Cortisol Concentration

Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 500-510

  Clark, J Derrell ^a   Rager, Dawn R ^b,c   Crowell Davis, Sharon ^a   Evans, Donald L ^a  

^a Center for Comparative Medicine and Translational Research   (United States)

^b University of Georgia ^*  (United States)

^c ST JOHN FISHER COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE; KEYHOLE LIMPET HEMOCYANIN;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DOG; EXERCISE; HOUSING; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYDROCORTISONE RELEASE; IMMUNITY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTE DIFFERENTIAL COUNT; MALE; NONHUMAN;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; ANTIBODY FORMATION; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY WEIGHT; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DOGS; HEMATOLOGIC TESTS; HYDROCORTISONE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; MALE; MONOCYTES; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL;

EID: 0031404042     PISSN: 00236764     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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