Sublingual and submandibular blood collection in mice: A comparison of effects on body weight, food consumption and tissue damage

Laboratory Animals

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 352-358

  Heimann, Maike ^a   Roth, Daniel Robert ^a   Ledieu, David ^a   Pfister, Rudolf ^a   Classen, Werner ^a  

^a NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Mice; Sublingual and submandibular blood collection; Tissue damage

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; HEMOGLOBIN; ISOFLURANE;

ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD SAMPLING; BLOOD VOLUME; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEALING; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; INJURY SEVERITY; MOUSE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NONHUMAN; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SUBLINGUAL VEIN; SUBMANDIBULAR VEIN; TISSUE INJURY; VEIN;

ANIMALS; BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION; BODY WEIGHT; EATING; FEMALE; LABORATORY ANIMAL SCIENCE; MANDIBLE; MANDIBULAR INJURIES; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TONGUE;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

EID: 77958054800     PISSN: 00236772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/la.2010.010011     Document Type: Article

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