Development and application of a novel environmental preference chamber for assessing responses of laboratory mice to atmospheric ammonia

Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 49-56

  Green, Angela R ^a   Wathes, Christopher M ^b   Demmers, Theo G M ^b   Clark, Judy MacArthur ^c   Xin, Hongwei ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^c JMC Consultancy   (United States)

^d Iowa State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; LOCOMOTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; VIDEORECORDER;

MUS;

EID: 41849122764     PISSN: 15596109     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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