Effect of spectral transmittance through red-tinted rodent cages on circadian metabolism and physiology in nude rats

Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 745-755

  Dauchy, Robert T ^a   Wren, Melissa A ^a   Dauchy, Erin M ^a   Hanifin, John P ^b   Jablonski, Michael R ^b   Warfield, Benjamin ^b   Brainard, George C ^b   Hill, Steven M ^a   Mao, Lulu ^a   Dupepe, Lynell M ^a   Ooms, Tara G ^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; POLYCARBONATE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAGE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL WELFARE; FATTY ACID BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; LIGHT IRRADIANCE; NONHUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; RED TINTED CAGE; SPECTRAL TRANSMITTANCE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; BLOOD GLUCOSE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CORTICOSTERONE; FEMALE; HOUSING, ANIMAL; INSULIN; LIGHT; MELATONIN; RATS; RATS, NUDE;

EID: 84888880522     PISSN: 15596109     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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