Heart rates of male and female Sprague-Dawley and spontaneously hypertensive rats housed singly or in groups

Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 175-184

  Azar, Toni ^a   Sharp, Jody ^a   Lawson, David ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HOUSING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HYPERTENSION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; RAT; RAT STRAIN; SENSORY STIMULATION; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TELEMETRY;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MALE; RATS; RATS, INBRED SHR; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TELEMETRY;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 79953831836     PISSN: 15596109     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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