Hormonal stress response of laboratory mice to conventional and minimally invasive bleeding techniques

Animal Welfare

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 449-455

  Voigt, C C ^a,b   Klockner P ^a,c   Touma, C ^d   Neuschl, C ^e   Brockmann, G ^e   Goritz F ^a   Palme, R ^f   Thomsen, R ^g  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR ZOO AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR FARM ANIMAL BIOLOGY FBN   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY   (Germany)

^e HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^g UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Animal welfare; Blood samples; Corticosterone; Dipetalogaster maximus; Faecal samples; Mus musculus

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; GLUCOCORTICOID; STRESS HORMONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL WELFARE; ARTERY PUNCTURE; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; EXPERIMENTAL MOUSE; FECES; FEMALE; HETEROPTERA; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; IMMOBILIZATION; INSECT STING; METABOLITE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE PROCEDURE; MOUSE; MUS MUSCULUS DOMESTICUS; NERVE PLEXUS; NONHUMAN; REDUVIIDAE; REFERENCE VALUE; RETROORBITAL PLEXUS; STIMULUS; STRESS; TAIL; VEIN PUNCTURE;

EID: 84887540690     PISSN: 09627286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7120/09627286.22.4.449     Document Type: Article

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