- Abstract:
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Daily handling of preweanling rats reduces their adult anxiety. Even routine cage-cleaning, involving handling, reduces adult anxiety compared with controls. Cage-cleaning regimes differ between animal breeders, potentially affecting rodent anxiety and experimental results. Here, 92 adult male rats given different cage-cleaning rates as pups, were compared on plus-maze, hyponeophagia, corticosterone, and handling tests. They were pair-housed and half were tail-marked for identification. Anxie...
Expand abstract - Journal:
- Developmental psychobiology
- Volume:
- 50
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- 266-277
- Publication date:
- 2008-04-05
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1098-2302
- ISSN:
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0012-1630
- URN:
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uuid:eea0847f-ff3a-446c-ab23-4174694c0095
- Source identifiers:
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4053
- Local pid:
- pubs:4053
- Copyright date:
- 2008
Journal article
Marked for life? Effects of early cage-cleaning frequency, delivery batch, and identification tail-marking on rat anxiety profiles.
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