Physiological profile of juvenile rats: Effects of cage size and cage density

Lab Animal

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 28-38

  Yildiz, Ahmet ^a   Hayirli, Armagan ^a   Okumus, Zafer ^a   Kaynar, Özgür ^a   Kisa, Fikrullah ^a  

^a ATATÜRK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL HOUSING; ARTICLE; BLOOD EXAMINATION; BODY WEIGHT; CLINICAL CHEMISTRY; CROWDING; FEMALE; LONGEVITY; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; WEANING;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CLINICAL CHEMISTRY TESTS; CROWDING; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC TESTS; HOUSING, ANIMAL; LONGEVITY; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; WEANING;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 33846541392     PISSN: 00937355     EISSN: 15484475     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/laban0207-28     Document Type: Article

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