Effect of Cage Size on Sexual Behavior Pattern in Male Rats

Contemporary Topics in Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 80-82

  Saito, Toru R ^a   Motomura, Nobuko ^b   Taniguchi, Kazumi ^c   Hokao, Ryoji ^a   Arkin, Abliz ^a   Takahashi, Kazuaki W ^a   Sato, Norimitsu L ^d  

^a NIPPON VETERINARY AND LIFE SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c IWATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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