Temperature variations recorded during interinstitutional air shipments of laboratory mice

Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 31-36

  Syversen, Eric ^a   Pineda, Fernando J ^b   Watson, Julie ^c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL MOUSE; MOUSE; NESTING; NIGHT; NONHUMAN; SHIPPING; TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE STRESS; WEATHER;

AIRCRAFT; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; MICE; TEMPERATURE; TRANSPORTATION;

ANIMALIA; MUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 38749098731     PISSN: 15596109     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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