Increased juvenile and adult body weights in BALB/cByJ mice reared in a communal nest

Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 484-487

  Heiderstadt, Kathleen M ^a   Blizard, David A ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULTHOOD; ANIMAL CARE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HOUSING; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLUID INTAKE; FOOD INTAKE; GROUPS BY AGE; GROWTH RATE; MALE; MORTALITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERINATAL PERIOD; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; WEANING;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY WEIGHT; DRINKING; EATING; FEMALE; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; NESTING BEHAVIOR;

MUS; RATTUS;

EID: 80755176783     PISSN: 15596109     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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