Effects of spectral transmittance through standard laboratory cages on circadian metabolism and physiology in nude rats

Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 146-156

  Dauchy, Robert T ^a   Dauchy, Erin M ^a   Hanifin, John P ^b   Gauthreaux, Sheena L ^a   Mao, Lulu ^a   Belancio, Victoria P ^a   Ooms, Tara G ^a   Dupepe, Lynell M ^a   Jablonski, Michael R ^b   Warfield, Benjamin ^b   Wren, Melissa A ^a   Brainard, George C ^b   Hill, Steven M ^a   Blask, David E ^a  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; FATTY ACID; GLUCOSE; INSULIN; LACTIC ACID; LEPTIN; MELATONIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTERIAL BLOOD; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; FATTY ACID BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; INSULIN BLOOD LEVEL; LIGHT; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN TENSION; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; RODENT;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CORTICOSTERONE; FEMALE; HOUSING, ANIMAL; LIGHTING; MELATONIN; RATS; RATS, NUDE;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; RATTUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 84875505874     PISSN: 15596109     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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