Diet Restriction in Rat Toxicity Studies: Automated Gravimetric Dispensing Equipment for Allocating Daily Rations of Powdered Rodent Diet into Pouches and 7-Day Feeders

Contemporary Topics in Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 37-43

  Petruska, Janet M ^a   Haushalter, Thomas M ^a   Scott, Antoni ^a   Davis, Thomas E ^a  

^a MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

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CARCINOGEN;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL FOOD; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; EATING; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; FEMALE; FOOD DEPRIVATION; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; RAT; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; WEIGHT GAIN; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; CARCINOGENS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; EATING; FEMALE; FOOD DEPRIVATION; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; WEIGHT GAIN; WEIGHT LOSS;

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