Influence of environmental enrichment and handling on the acute stress response in individually housed mice

Laboratory Animals

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 161-173

  Meijer, M K ^a,c   Sommer, R ^a   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 stress; Environmental enrichment; Individual housing; Mice; Radiotelemetry

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; BODY WEIGHT; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POSTHUMOUS CARE; STRESS; TELEMETRY; THYMUS;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; ORGAN SIZE; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; STRESS; THYMUS GLAND; TIME FACTORS; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

MUS;

EID: 34248350744     PISSN: 00236772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/002367707780378168     Document Type: Article

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