Plasma cortisol and noradrenalin concentrations in pigs: Automated sampling of freely moving pigs housed in the PigTurn® versus manually sampled and restrained pigs

Animal Welfare

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 197-205

  Marchant Forde, J N ^a   Matthews, D L ^b   Poletto, R ^a,b,f   McCain, R R ^c   Mann, D D ^c   DeGraw, R T ^c   Hampsch, J M ^c   Peters, S ^c   Knipp, G T ^d   Kissinger, C B ^e  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BIOANALYTICAL SYSTEMS INC   (United States)

^d PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Phlebotics Inc   (United States)

^f FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Animal welfare; Blood sampling; Cortisol; Noradrenalin; Pigs; Restraint

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE; NORADRENALIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUTOANALYSIS; BLOOD SAMPLING; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; INDWELLING CATHETER; MALE; NONHUMAN; NORADRENALIN BLOOD LEVEL; RECUMBENCY; SAMPLING; SWINE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 84860159101     PISSN: 09627286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7120/09627286.21.2.197     Document Type: Article

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