Effect of restraint and injection methods on heart rate and body temperature in mice

Laboratory Animals

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 382-391

  Meijer, M K ^a,c   Spruijt, B M ^a   Van Zutphen, L F M ^a   Baumans, V ^a,b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Acute stressor; Body temperature; Corticosterone; Heart rate; Mice

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CARE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HEALTH; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY TEMPERATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART RATE; INJECTION SITE; LABORATORY TEST; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; STRESS; TELEMETRY;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; BODY TEMPERATURE; HEART RATE; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; INJECTIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; MICE; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; STRESS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33750095436     PISSN: 00236772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/002367706778476370     Document Type: Article

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