Effect of different spectral transmittances through tinted animal cages on circadian metabolism and physiology in sprague-dawley rats

Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 44-51

  Wren, Melissa A ^a,d   Dauchy, Robert T ^a   Hanifin, John P ^b   Jablonski, Michael R ^b   Warfield, Benjamin ^b   Brainard, George C ^b   Blask, David E ^a   Hill, Steven M ^a   Ooms, Tara G ^c   Bohm Jr , Rudolf P ^d  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c IIT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d TULANE NATIONAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

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

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HOUSING; ARTICLE; BLOOD PH; BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY GROWTH; CAGE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; FLUID INTAKE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT;

ANIMALS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CORTICOSTERONE; LEPTIN; LIGHT; MALE; MELATONIN; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 84892528894     PISSN: 15596109     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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