The Laboratory Rat

The UFAW Handbook on the Care and Management of Laboratory and Other Research Animals: Eighth Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 311-326

  Koolhaas, Jaap M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Incidence of stereotypies very low under standard housing conditions; Infections of laboratory animals influencing outcome of experiments; Laboratory rat domesticated form of species rattus norvegicus or brown norway rat; Long distance transportation of rats effects of stress on behaviour and physiology; Norway rat, social species by nature ignored, during design and interpretation of laboratory experiments5. laboratory management and breeding; R. norvegicus and R. rattus cosmopolitan, found on all continents; Rats, having dichromatic colour vision; Role of auditory information in social communication of rats; Roman high avoidance (RHA) and roman low avoidance (RLA) lines in active shock avoidance paradigm

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863664650     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444318777.ch22     Document Type: Chapter

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