Use of environmentally enriched housing for rats with spinal cord injury: The need for standardization

Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 34-41

  Burke, Darlene A ^a,b   Magnuson, David S K ^a,b   Nunn, Christine D ^a,b   Fentress, Kimberly G ^a,b   Wilson, Mary L ^a,b   Shum Siu, Alice H ^a,b   Moore, Meika C ^a,b   Turner, Logan E ^a,b   King, William W ^a   Onifer, Stephen M ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

^b University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL HOUSING; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; LOCOMOTION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; RAT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STANDARD; WHITE MATTER; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; DISEASE MODEL; LABORATORY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HOUSING, ANIMAL; LABORATORY ANIMAL SCIENCE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 34249862795     PISSN: 15596109     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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