Light Contamination during the Dark Phase in "Photoperiodically Controlled" Animal Rooms: Effect on Tumor Growth and Metabolism in Rats

Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 511-518

  Dauchy, Robert T ^a   Sauer, Leonard A ^a   Blask, David E ^a   Vaughan, George M ^b  

^a BASSETT HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^b US ARMY INSTITUTE OF SURGICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DARKNESS; LIGHT; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; MALE; METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; PHOTOPERIODICITY; RAT; TUMOR GROWTH;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; ANTITHROMBINS; DARK ADAPTATION; FATTY ACIDS; LIGHT; LINOLEIC ACIDS; LIVER NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; MALE; MELATONIN; PHOTOPERIOD; RATS; RATS, INBRED BUF;

EID: 0031421835     PISSN: 00236764     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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