Alopecia scoring: The quantitative assessment of hair loss in captive macaques

Alternatives to Laboratory Animals

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 193-206

  Honess, Paul E ^a   Gimpel, Jessica L ^b   Wolfensohn, Sarah E ^a   Mason, Georgia J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alopecia; Animal welfare; Hair loss; Over grooming; Primates; Scoring system; Stress

Indexed keywords

ALOPECIA; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CARE; ANIMAL WELFARE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; HAIR LOSS; MACACA; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; SPECIES; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STRESS; TRICHOTILLOMANIA;

ANIMALIA; MACACA; MACACA MULATTA; PRIMATES; RODENTIA;

EID: 21844457450     PISSN: 02611929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/026119290503300308     Document Type: Article

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