Weekend versus working day: Differences in telemetric blood pressure in male Wistar rats

Laboratory Animals

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 86-91

  Schreuder, M F ^a,b,c   Fodor, M ^a   Van Wijk, J A E ^a,b   Delemarre Van De Waal, H A ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c SOPHIA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Blood pressure determination; Rats; Stress; Telemetry

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; HEART RATE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; NONHUMAN; RAT; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TELEMETRY; WORKING TIME;

ANIMALS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE DETERMINATION; MALE; PERIODICITY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STRESS; TELEMETRY;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 33846625219     PISSN: 00236772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/002367707779399374     Document Type: Article

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