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A systematic review of discomfort due to toe or ear clipping in laboratory rodents

Toe clipping and ear clipping (also ear notching or ear punching) are frequently used methods for individual identification of laboratory rodents. These procedures potentially cause severe discomfort, which can reduce animal welfare and distort experimental results. However, no systematic summary of...

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Autores principales: Wever, Kimberley E., Geessink, Florentine J., Brouwer, Michelle A. E., Tillema, Alice, Ritskes-Hoitinga, Merel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5700778/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28429644
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0023677217705912