Stress-like Responses to Common Procedures in Male Rats Housed Alone or with Other Rats

Contemporary Topics in Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 8-14

  Sharp, Jody L ^a   Zammit, Timothy G ^a   Azar, Toni A ^a   Lawson, David M ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL HOUSING; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EXERCISE; HEMODYNAMICS; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; ODOR; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERIODICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RAT; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; STRESS; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; TELEMETRY;

ACTIVITY CYCLES; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HOUSING, ANIMAL; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; INJECTIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; MALE; ODORS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; SOCIAL ISOLATION; STRESS; TELEMETRY;

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