Individually Ventilated Cages: Beneficial for Mice and Men?

Contemporary Topics in Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 13-19

  Baumans, Vera ^a   Schlingmann, Freek ^b   Vonck, Marlice ^a   Van Lith, Hein A ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Solvay Pharmaceuticals Inc   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR CONDITIONING; ANIMAL; ANIMAL HOUSING; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMAL RIGHTS; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; FEMALE; METHODOLOGY; MICROCLIMATE; MOUSE; NESTING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMAL RIGHTS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; ENVIRONMENT, CONTROLLED; FEMALE; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; NESTING BEHAVIOR; VENTILATION;

EID: 0036363521     PISSN: 10600558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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