Higher heart rate of laboratory mice housed individually vs in pairs

Laboratory Animals

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 54-62

  Spani D ^a   Arras, M ^a   Konig B ^a   Rulicke T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Group housing; Heart rate; Housing conditions; Individual housing; Laboratory mouse; Social environment; Telemetry

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HOUSING; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HEMODYNAMICS; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PARAMETER; REST; SLEEP PATTERN; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STRESS; TELEMETRY;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY TEMPERATURE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MALE; MICE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; OVARIECTOMY; RADIO WAVES; SOCIAL ISOLATION; TELEMETRY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0037250992     PISSN: 00236772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/002367703762226692     Document Type: Article

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