The responses of growing pigs to a chronic-intermittent stress treatment

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 89, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 670-680

  Rutherford, Kenneth M D ^a   Haskell, Marie J ^b   Glasbey, Chris ^c   Lawrence, Alistair B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b SCOTTISH AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^c BIOMATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Detrended fluctuation analysis; Fractal analysis; Pigs; Stress

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DETRENDED FLUCTUATION ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; HYPERCORTISOLISM; MALE; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALIVA ANALYSIS; STRESS; SWINE; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 33845390867     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2006.08.006     Document Type: Article

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