A Novel Vented Microisolation Container for Caging Animals: Microenvironmental Comfort in a Closed-System Filter Cage

Contemporary Topics in Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 22-27

  Rivard, Germain F ^a   Neff, David E ^b   Cullen, Joseph F ^c   Welch, Samuel W J ^c  

^a Animal Care Systems   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^c The University of Colorado Denver   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR CONDITIONING; ANIMAL; ANIMAL HOUSING; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROCLIMATE; MOUSE; SMOKE; SOCIAL ISOLATION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MICE; MICROCLIMATE; SMOKE; SOCIAL ISOLATION; VENTILATION;

EID: 0033760010     PISSN: 10600558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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