Hair pulling: A review

Laboratory Animals

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 361-369

  Reinhardt, Viktor ^a,b  

^a Animal Welfare Institute   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Abnormal behaviour; Barbering; Cats; Dogs; Guineapigs; Hair pulling; Mice; Primates; Rabbits; Review; Sheep; Trichotillomania; Wool pulling

Indexed keywords

CLOMIPRAMINE; DIAZEPAM; NALTREXONE; PHENOBARBITAL;

AGGRESSION; ALOPECIA; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; CAT; DOG; GUINEA PIG; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; PSYCHOGENESIS; RABBIT; REVIEW; RHESUS MONKEY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SHEEP; TRICHOTILLOMANIA; VIBRISSA; WOOL;

AGONISTIC BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HAIR; MALE; STRESS; TRICHOTILLOMANIA;

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CAVIA PORCELLUS; MACACA MULATTA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; OVIBOS MOSCHATUS MOSCHATUS; OVIS ARIES; PRIMATES;

EID: 27644552209     PISSN: 00236772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/002367705774286448     Document Type: Review

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