Are "by-stander" female Sprague-Dawley rats affected by experimental procedures?

Contemporary Topics in Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 19-27

  Sharp, Jody ^a   Zammit, Timothy ^a   Azar, Toni ^a   Lawson, David ^a  

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

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HOUSING; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; BYSTANDER EFFECT; CAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROWDING; DECAPITATION; FEMALE; GROOMING; HEART RATE; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; INJECTION; LAVAGE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; RAT; RAT STRAIN; REARING; SCORING SYSTEM; SIMULATION; SLEEP; STRESS; TELEMETRY; WAKEFULNESS; WEIGHT; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BLOOD PRESSURE; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; RODENT DISEASE; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HOUSING, ANIMAL; POPULATION DENSITY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RODENT DISEASES; STRESS;

EID: 0037264178     PISSN: 10600558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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