A less stressful alternative to oral gavage for pharmacological and toxicological studies in mice

Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology

Volumn 260, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 65-69

  Walker, Mary K ^a   Boberg, Jason R ^a   Walsh, Mary T ^a   Wolf, Valerie ^a   Trujillo, Alisha ^a   Duke, Melissa Skelton ^a   Palme, Rupert ^b   Felton, Linda A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

Author keywords

Alternative; Blood pressure; Corticosterone; Oral gavage; Stress

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ADMINISTRATION; FECES ANALYSIS; FEEDING; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PILL; TELEMETRY;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANIMALS; BLOOD PRESSURE; HEART RATE; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TELEMETRY; TIME FACTORS; TOXICITY TESTS;

MUS;

EID: 84858283019     PISSN: 0041008X     EISSN: 10960333     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.taap.2012.01.025     Document Type: Article

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