Stressed out: Providing laboratory animals with behavioral control to reduce the physiological effects of stress

Lab Animal

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 142-145

  Gaskill, Brianna N ^a   Garner, Joseph P ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMAL MODEL; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; FEMALE; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROCEDURES; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; MODELS, ANIMAL; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 85016214380     PISSN: 00937355     EISSN: 15484475     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/laban.1218     Document Type: Review

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