A refined method for sequential blood sampling by tail incision in rats

Laboratory Animals

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 372-378

  Fluttert, Marc ^a   Dalm, Sergiu ^a   Oitzl, Melly S ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Animal welfare; Blood sampling; Corticosterone; Rat; Stress environment; Tail incision method

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE;

ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL WELFARE; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; IMMOBILIZATION; INCISION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RAT; SEQUENTIAL ANALYSIS; STRESS; SURGERY; TAIL; VEIN CATHETERIZATION;

ANIMAL; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION; CORTICOSTERONE; HANDLING (PSYCHOLOGY); JUGULAR VEINS; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; STRESS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TAIL;

EID: 0033793850     PISSN: 00236772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/002367700780387714     Document Type: Article

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