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Improving the practicality of using non-aversive handling methods to reduce background stress and anxiety in laboratory mice

Handling can stimulate stress and anxiety in laboratory animals that negatively impacts welfare and introduces a confounding factor in many areas of research. Picking up mice by the tail is a major source of handling stress that results in strong aversion to the handler, while mice familiarised with...

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Autores principales: Gouveia, Kelly, Hurst, Jane L.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6937263/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31889107
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-56860-7