The influence of transportation stress on selected nutritional parameters to establish the necessary minimum period for adaptation in rat feeding studies

Laboratory Animals

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 446-456

  Van Ruiven, R ^a,b   Meijer, G W ^a   Wiersma, A ^a   Baumans, V ^b   Van Zutphen, L F M ^b   Ritskes Hoitinga, J ^a,c  

^a UNILEVER RESEARCH VLAARDINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Acclimatization; Adaptation; Laboratory rat; Nutritional parameters; Open field behaviour; Transport; Transport stress

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; CORTICOSTERONE; DRINKING WATER; FATTY ACID; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; NITROGEN; UREA;

ADAPTATION; AIRCRAFT; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY GROWTH; BODY WEIGHT; CAR; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; ENZYME BLOOD LEVEL; FECES; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOD; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MOBILIZATION; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL PARAMETERS; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; RAT; REARING; STRESS; TRAVEL; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 0031787228     PISSN: 00236772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/002367798780599893     Document Type: Article

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