Relationship between sunlight exposure, housing condition, and serum vitamin D and related physiologic biomarker levels in captive chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)

Comparative Medicine

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 402-406

  Videan, Elaine N ^a   Heward, Christopher B ^b   Fritz, Jo ^a   Murphy, James ^a   Cortez, Czarina ^b   Su, Yali ^b  

^a Primate Foundation Arizona   (United States)

^b Kronos Science Laboratories   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CALCIUM; CALCIUM ION; PHOSPHORUS; VITAMIN D;

AMBIENT AIR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HOUSING; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAGE; CHIMPANZEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; NONHUMAN; SUN EXPOSURE; SYNTHESIS; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BLOOD; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; ILLUMINATION; PAN TROGLODYTES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUNLIGHT; ZOO ANIMAL;

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; ANIMALS, ZOO; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CALCIUM; FEMALE; HOUSING, ANIMAL; LIGHTING; MALE; PAN TROGLODYTES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX FACTORS; SUNLIGHT; VITAMIN D; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY;

EID: 34548830451     PISSN: 15320820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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