Effects of a cage enrichment program on heart rate, blood pressure, and activity of male Sprague-Dawley and spontaneously hypertensive rats monitored by radiotelemetry

Contemporary Topics in Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 32-40

  Sharp, Jody ^a   Azar, Toni ^a   Lawson, David ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HOUSING; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; CAGE; CARDIOVASCULAR RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FECES; HEART RATE; MALE; NONHUMAN; ODOR; RAT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT; STRESS; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TELEMETRY; URINE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BLOOD PRESSURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DAHL SALT SENSITIVE RAT; INJECTION; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALIA; RODENTIA;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARBON DIOXIDE; HEART RATE; HOUSING, ANIMAL; INJECTIONS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; RATS; RATS, INBRED DAHL; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SPECIMEN HANDLING; TELEMETRY;

EID: 17144394154     PISSN: 10600558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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