Comparison of and habituation to four common methods of handling and lifting of rats with cardiovascular telemetry

Scandinavian Journal of Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 137-148

  Baturaite, Živile ^a   Voipio, Hanna Marja ^b   Rukšenas, Osvaldas ^a   Luodonpää, Marja ^b   Leskinen, Hanna ^b   Apanavičiene, Neringa ^a   Nevalainen, Timo ^c,d,e  

^a VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^e PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CARE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HOUSING; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; HABITUATION; HEART RATE; IMMOBILIZATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; NONHUMAN; RAT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TELEMETRY;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 27644599865     PISSN: 09013393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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