Environmental enrichment does not impact on tumor growth in mice

F1000Research

Volumn 2, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Kershaw, Michael H ^a,b   Westwood, Jennifer A ^a   Darcy, Phillip K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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Indexed keywords

DETERGENT;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HOUSING; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; EXPERIMENTAL MOUSE; FEMALE; FOOD COMPOSITION; GROWTH RATE; MALE; MELANOMA; MICROFLORA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE TUMOR; TUMOR CELL LINE; TUMOR GROWTH;

EID: 84914810126     PISSN: 20461402     EISSN: 1759796X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12688/f1000research.2-140.v1     Document Type: Article

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