Body weight and faecal corticosterone metabolite excretion in male sprague-dawley rats following short transportation and transfer from group-housing to single-housing

Scandinavian Journal of Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 205-213

  Dahlin, Joakim ^a   Lam, Jenn ^a   Hau, Jann ^a   Astuti, Pudji ^a   Siswanto, Harry ^a   Abelson, Klas S P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HOUSING; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FECES; FECES ANALYSIS; FECES LEVEL; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; STRESS; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; WEIGHT CHANGE;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 76149141246     PISSN: 09013393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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