Impact of 'living apart together' on postoperative recovery of mice compared with social and individual housing

Laboratory Animals

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 441-455

  Van Loo, Pascalle L P ^a   Kuin, Nynke ^a   Sommer, René ^a   Avsaroglu, Harut ^b   Pham, Therese ^c   Baumans, Vera ^a,c  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Animal welfare; Behaviour; Heart rate; Individual housing; Mouse; Social housing; Surgery; Telemetry

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HOUSING; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; C57BL 6 MOUSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; FEMALE; FLUID INTAKE; FOOD INTAKE; HEART RATE; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NESTING; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; TELEMETRY; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMAL WELFARE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HOUSING, ANIMAL; LABORATORY ANIMAL SCIENCE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TELEMETRY; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

EID: 37049009717     PISSN: 00236772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/002367707782314328     Document Type: Article

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