Cage enrichment with paper tissue, but not plastic tunnels, increases variability in mouse model of asthma

Laboratory Animals

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 121-123

  Pasalic, I ^a   Bosnjak, B ^a,b   Tkalcevic, V Ivetic ^a   Jaran, D Seveljevic ^a   Javorscak, Z ^a   Markovic, D ^a   Hrvacic, B ^a  

^a GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United Kingdom)

^b Division of Infectious Diseases   (Austria)

Author keywords

Airway inflammation; Environmental enrichment; Eosinophils; Interleukin 13; Mice

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM SULFATE; INTERLEUKIN 13; OVALBUMIN; PLASTIC;

ALLERGY; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL WELFARE; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CAGE; CELL COUNT; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; EOSINOPHIL; LUNG LAVAGE; MALE; MOUSE; NESTING; NONHUMAN; PAPER; PNEUMONIA; SENSITIZATION;

ADMINISTRATION, INTRANASAL; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; ASTHMA; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; EOSINOPHILS; INTERLEUKIN-13; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; OVALBUMIN; PAPER; PLASTICS; PNEUMONIA; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

ANIMALIA; MUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 79959581849     PISSN: 00236772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/la.2010.010109     Document Type: Article

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