Upgrading mouse health and welfare: Direct benefits of a large-scale rederivation programme

Laboratory Animals

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 127-139

  Fray, M D ^a   Pickard, A R ^a   Harrison, M ^b   Cheeseman, M T ^b  

^a MRC MAMMALIAN GENETICS UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^b Medical Research Council Harwell Institute   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Embryo transfer; Health; In vitro fertilization (IVF); Specific pathogen free (SPF); Welfare

Indexed keywords

NITROSOUREA;

ADENOVIRUS 2; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HEALTH; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANIMAL WELFARE; ARTICLE; CAGE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO (ANATOMY); ENTERITIS; ENTEROBIUS VERMICULARIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HELICOBACTER; HEPATITIS VIRUS; HYSTERECTOMY; ILEUS; INFECTION CONTROL; LACTATION; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MITE; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; MURINE ENCEPHALOMYELITIS VIRUS; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PASTEURELLA PNEUMOTROPICA; PROGENY; PROTOZOON; SUDDEN DEATH; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMAL WELFARE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; FEMALE; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; QUARANTINE; RODENT DISEASES; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS;

ACARI; HELICOBACTER; HUMAN ADENOVIRUS TYPE 2; MURINE ADENOVIRUS 1; MURINE HEPATITIS VIRUS; MUS; PASTEURELLA PNEUMOTROPICA; PROTOZOA; THEILER'S ENCEPHALOMYELITIS VIRUS;

EID: 44649153537     PISSN: 00236772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/la.2007.007005     Document Type: Article

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