Quantitative analysis of cardiac data from rats monitored by telemetry: Reducing within- and between-animal variability

Cardiovascular Toxicology

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 237-244

  Nadziejko, Christine ^a   Fang, Kaijie ^a   Chen, Lung Chi ^a   Gordon, Terry ^a   Nádas, Arthur ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambient temperature; Animal to animal differences; Data analysis; Heart rate; Telemetry

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEART FUNCTION; HEART RATE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SAMPLING; TELEMETRY; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; HEART; HEART RATE; MALE; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MOTOR ACTIVITY; OBSERVER VARIATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TELEMETRY; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0042528363     PISSN: 15307905     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1385/CT:2:4:237     Document Type: Article

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