Stress-like responses to common procedures in individually and group-housed female rats

Contemporary Topics in Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 9-18

  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; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; CAGE; CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GROOMING; HEART RATE; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; NONHUMAN; RAT; RAT STRAIN; REARING; REST; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSORY STIMULATION; SLEEP; STRESS; TELEMETRY; WAKEFULNESS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BLOOD PRESSURE; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; MOTIVATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RODENT DISEASE; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HANDLING (PSYCHOLOGY); HEART RATE; HOUSING, ANIMAL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RODENT DISEASES; SOCIAL ISOLATION; STRESS;

EID: 0037271297     PISSN: 10600558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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