Assessment of the use of two commercially available environmental enrichments by laboratory mice by preference testing

Laboratory Animals

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 58-67

  Van Loo, Pascalle L P ^a   Blom, Harry J M ^a   Meijer, Margot K ^a   Baumans, Vera ^a,b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Environmental enrichment; Mice; Nest box; Nesting material; Preference; Welfare

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL WELLBEING; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; ERGONOMICS; EXPERIMENTAL MOUSE; FEMALE; HYGIENE; MALE; MATERIALS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NESTING; NONHUMAN; PLACE PREFERENCE; STANDARDIZATION;

ANIMAL WELFARE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NESTING BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 13244289836     PISSN: 00236772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/0023677052886501     Document Type: Article

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