Analysis of physiological and behavioural parameters in mice after toe clipping as newborns

Laboratory Animals

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 7-13

  Schaefer, Dagmar C ^a   Asner, Igor N ^a   Seifert, Burkhardt ^b   Bürki, Kurt ^a   Cinelli, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Corticosterone; Grip test; Hotplate test; Pain; Toe clipping

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE;

AMPUTATION STUMP; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL WELFARE; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GRIP STRENGTH; HISTOLOGY; HOT PLATE TEST; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT; STRESS; TAXONOMIC IDENTIFICATION; TOE CLIPPING;

ANIMAL IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CORTICOSTERONE; FEMALE; HINDLIMB; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; TOES;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

EID: 75449094226     PISSN: 00236772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/la.2009.009020     Document Type: Article

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