Postsurgical food and water consumption, fecal corticosterone metabolites, and behavior assessment as noninvasive measures of pain in vasectomized BALB/c Mice

Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 69-75

  Jacobsen, Kirsten R ^a   Kalliokoski, Otto ^a   Teilmann, Anne C ^a   Hau, Jann ^a   Abelson, Klas S P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE;

ANESTHESIA; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFECATION; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FLUID INTAKE; FOOD INTAKE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; STRESS; VASECTOMY;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY WEIGHT; CORTICOSTERONE; DRINKING; EATING; FECES; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; OBSERVATION; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; VASECTOMY;

MUS;

EID: 84856879482     PISSN: 15596109     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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