A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down: A novel technique to improve oral gavage in mice

Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 329-334

  Hoggatt, Amber F ^a,b   Hoggatt, Jonathan ^b   Honerlaw, Meghan ^c   Pelus, Louis M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CITRIC ACID; CORTICOSTERONE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SUCROSE; SUGAR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL WELFARE; ARTICLE; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; ESOPHAGUS INJURY; FEEDING; MOUSE; NEEDLE; NONHUMAN; SWALLOWING;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANALGESICS; ANIMALS; CITRIC ACID; CORTICOSTERONE; FEMALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SUCROSE;

ANIMALIA; MUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 77953193898     PISSN: 15596109     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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