Are investigators aware of environmental noise in animal facilities and that this noise may affect experimental data?

Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 45-51

  Baldwin, Ann L ^a   Schwartz, Gary E ^b   Hopp, Douglas H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

^c Tekman Services   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EQUIPMENT; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; HEARING; LABORATORY PERSONNEL; NOISE; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; SOUND INTENSITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VENTILATOR; VETERINARY MEDICINE; WORK ENVIRONMENT; ANIMAL; ANIMAL HOUSING; ANIMAL WELFARE; CLASSIFICATION; HUMAN; LABORATORY; METHODOLOGY; PERCEPTION; PERSONNEL; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; VALIDATION STUDY;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMAL WELFARE; ANIMALS; AWARENESS; GUIDELINES; HOUSING, ANIMAL; HUMANS; LABORATORY ANIMAL SCIENCE; NOISE; PERCEPTION; RESEARCH DESIGN; RESEARCH PERSONNEL;

EID: 33947598969     PISSN: 15596109     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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