Food or fluid restriction in common laboratory animals: Balancing welfare considerations with scientific inquiry

Comparative Medicine

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 149-160

  Rowland, Neil E ^a  

^a University of Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL WELFARE; DIET RESTRICTION; DRINKING; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEEDING; LABORATORY TEST; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MENTAL STRESS; NONHUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; RODENT; SCIENCE; WATER DEPRIVATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL FOOD; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FOOD DEPRIVATION; MOUSE; RAT;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMAL NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; ANIMAL WELFARE; ANIMALS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FOOD DEPRIVATION; MICE; RATS; WATER DEPRIVATION;

EID: 34447265240     PISSN: 15320820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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