Effects of pair housing on diurnal rhythms of heart rate and heart rate variability in miniature swine

Experimental Animals

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 303-309

  Kuwahara, Masayoshi ^a   Tsujino, Yasuhiro ^a   Tsubone, Hirokazu ^a   Kumagai, Eiji ^b   Tsutsumi, Hideki ^b   Tanigawa, Manabu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b Chugai Research Institute for Medical Science Inc   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autonomic nervous system; Heart rate variability; Miniature swine; Pair housing; Stress

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HOLTER MONITORING; MALE; NONHUMAN; POWER SPECTRUM; RR INTERVAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STRESS; SWINE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL HOUSING; HEART RATE; MENTAL STRESS; MINIPIG; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; SUS SCROFA;

ANIMALS; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART RATE; HOUSING, ANIMAL; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SWINE; SWINE, MINIATURE;

EID: 6944253856     PISSN: 13411357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1538/expanim.53.303     Document Type: Article

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