The importance of reporting housing and husbandry in rat research

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue JULY, 2011, Pages

  Prager, Eric M ^a   Bergstrom, Hadley C ^a   Grunberg, Neil E ^a,b   Johnson, Luke R ^a  

^a UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CARE; ANIMAL HOUSING; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; CAGE; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL WELFARE; EXPERIMENTAL RAT; HABITUATION; HEART RATE; HORMONE RESPONSE; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; LIGHT INTENSITY; LUMINANCE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NATIONAL HEALTH ORGANIZATION; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; QUALITY CONTROL; RAT; SANITATION; SOCIAL ISOLATION; STANDARDIZATION; TRANSPORT STRESS; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 84855223025     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2011.00038     Document Type: Article

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