Improving housing conditions for laboratory mice: A review of 'environmental enrichment'

Laboratory Animals

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 243-270

  Olsson, I Anna S ^a   Dahlborn, Kristina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Enrichment; Laboratory animal; Mouse; Nesting material; Physiology; Stress; Welfare

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL HOUSING; ANIMAL WELFARE; CAGE; ENVIRONMENT; LABORATORY; MOTIVATION; NESTING; NONHUMAN; PLACE PREFERENCE; REVIEW; STRESS;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMAL WELFARE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; NESTING BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0036069688     PISSN: 00236772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/002367702320162379     Document Type: Review

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