Cage Rack Ventilation Options for Laboratory Animal Facilities

Lab Animal

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 47-52

  Stakutis, Richard E ^a  

^a Phoenix Controls Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR MONITOR; AIR TEMPERATURE; ALARM MONITOR; ANIMAL CARE; ANIMAL HOUSING; ANIMAL USE; BUILDING; CAGE; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; FILTER DESIGN; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REVIEW; ROOM TEMPERATURE; ROOM VENTILATION; VENTILATOR; AIR; AIR CONDITIONING; ANIMAL; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; INSTRUMENTATION; LABORATORY; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; MURIDAE; RAT;

ANIMALIA; RODENTIA;

AIR MOVEMENTS; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; HOUSING, ANIMAL; LABORATORY ANIMAL SCIENCE; MICE; MURIDAE; RATS; VENTILATION;

EID: 0141594700     PISSN: 00937355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/laban0903-47     Document Type: Review

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