Welfare assessment of transgenic animals: Behavioural responses and morphological development of newborn mice

Alternatives to Laboratory Animals

Volumn 27, Issue SUPPL. 1, 1999, Pages 857-868

  Van Der Meer, Miriam ^a   Costa, Patrizia ^b   Baumans, Vera ^a   Olivier, Berend ^a   Van Zutphen, Bert ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b IRBM   (Italy)

Author keywords

Behavioural tests; Mice; Microinjection; Morphology; Transgenesis; Welfare assessment

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL WELFARE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GROWTH RATE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SURVIVAL RATE; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; WEIGHT GAIN;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0033371272     PISSN: 02611929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/026119299902701s10     Document Type: Review

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