Effect of housing rats in dim light or long nights on heart rate

Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 25-34

  Azar, Toni A ^a   Sharp, Jody L ^a   Lawson, David M ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HOUSING; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HYPOTHESIS; ILLUMINATION; LIGHT; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TELEMETRY;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HANDLING (PSYCHOLOGY); HEART RATE; LABORATORY ANIMAL SCIENCE; LIGHTING; MALE; PHOTOPERIOD; RATS; RATS, INBRED SHR; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TELEMETRY;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 48949105833     PISSN: 15596109     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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