Significant improvement in survival of tabby jimpy mutant mice by providing folded-paper nest boxes

Scandinavian Journal of Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 243-249

  Kimura, Tohru ^a   Kubota, Mitsuko ^a   Watanabe, Hiroyuki ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b M Watanabe and Co Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HOUSING; ANIMAL WELLBEING; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL WELFARE; FEMALE; JUMPING; LETHAL GENE; LIFESPAN; MALE; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; NEST BOX; NONHUMAN; SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL RATE; WEANING;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

EID: 77953698824     PISSN: 09013393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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