ArticleJournal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science : JAALAS2019
Welfare and Scientific Considerations of Tattooing and Ear Tagging for Mouse Identification.
Article in Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science : JAALAS, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.
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- Neuroinflammation, body temperature and behavioural changes in CD1 male mice undergoing acute restraint stress: An exploratory study.PloS one · 2021Article
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Abstract
Ear tagging is perceived as less painful or stressful than tattooing and therefore is generally considered less harmful or costly to welfare. However, ear tags are more difficult to read than tattoos and can fall out, and mice usually require restraint for the tag numbers to be read accurately. We assessed the welfare and scientific implications of tattooing by using a commercial device compared with restraint in a device versus ear tagging. Male and female BALB/c mice (
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