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Exploring Refinement Strategies for Single Housing of Male C57BL/6JRj Mice: Effect of Cage Divider on Stress-Related Behavior and Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal-Axis Activity

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2021
Introduction: Single housing of laboratory mice is a common practice to meet experimental needs, or to avoid intermale aggression. However, single housing is considered to negatively affect animal welfare and may compromise the scientific validity of ...
An Buckinx, Andries Van Schuerbeek, Jo Bossuyt, Wissal Allaoui, Yana Van Den Herrewegen, Ilse Smolders, Dimitri De Bundel   +6 more
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Variation in salivary cortisol responses in yearling Thoroughbred racehorses during their first year of training

PLoS ONE, 2023
Thoroughbred horses are bred for competitive racing and undergo intense training regimes. The maintenance of physical soundness and desirable behavioural characteristics are critical to the longevity of a racing career.
Amy R. Holtby, Beatrice A. McGivney, John A. Browne, Lisa M. Katz, Keith J. Murphy, Emmeline W. Hill   +5 more
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Repercussões cardíacas após infarto do miocárdio em ratas submetidas previamente a exercício físico Cardiac implications after myocardial infarction in rats previously undergoing physical exercise

Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia, 2012
FUNDAMENTO: Poucos estudos analisaram os efeitos cardíacos do exercício físico prévio à oclusão coronariana. OBJETIVO: Avaliar, em ratas submetidas a exercício físico, as repercussões do infarto do miocárdio.
Eduardo Carvalho de Arruda Veiga, Leslie Andrews Portes, Danilo Sales Bocalini, Ednei Luiz Antonio, Alexandra Alberta dos Santos, Marília Higuchi Santos, Flavio André Silva, Paulo José Ferreira Tucci   +7 more
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Conditioning or cognition? Understanding interspecific communication as a way of improving animal training (a case study with elephants in Nepal)

Sign Systems Studies, 2009
When animals are trained to function in a human society (for example, pet dogs, police dogs, or sports horses), different trainers and training cultures vary widely in their ability to understand how the animal perceives the communication efforts of the ...
Helena Telkänranta
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Comportamento mecânico do terço proximal de fêmures de ratos após período de suspensão pela cauda e exercitação Mechanical behavior of rats' femoral proximal thirds after a period of tail suspension and exercises

Acta Ortopédica Brasileira, 2007
A remodelação óssea pode ser estimulada por forças mecânicas presentes nas atividades físicas normais. Neste trabalho foi analisado o comportamento mecânico do terço proximal de fêmur de ratas submetidas à suspensão pela cauda e posterior treinamento em ...
Marcos Massao Shimano, José Batista Volpon   +1 more
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Towards Large Particle Size in Compound Feed: Using Expander Conditioning Prior to Pelleting Improves Pellet Quality and Growth Performance of Broilers

Animals, 2022
During the processing of compound feed for broilers, several changes occur that affect the physical and probably the nutritional properties of pellets, influencing animal performance. The effects of mill type, particle size (PS) and expander conditioning
Marco Antônio Ebbing, Nadia Yacoubi, Victor Naranjo, Werner Sitzmann, Karl Schedle, Martin Gierus   +5 more
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REM sleep and safety signal learning in posttraumatic stress disorder: A preliminary study in military veterans

Neurobiology of Stress, 2018
Background: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is associated with a number of negative physical and mental health consequences. Fear conditioning plays an important mechanistic role in PTSD, and PTSD patients also show deficits in safety signal ...
Laura D. Straus, Sonya B. Norman, Victoria B. Risbrough, Dean T. Acheson, Sean P.A. Drummond   +4 more
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Iot Based Physical Condition Screening System for Animals

International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering, 2019
Animal husbandry and its health monitoring is one of the prime facts for the socio-economic development of a nation. This necessitates monitoring the wellbeing of the animals and thereby increasing the food supply of the country. Advancement in wearable biosensors and wireless communication technologies help in ubiquitous E-health monitoring of animals.
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A review of possibilities for control of Salmonella and other pathogenic bacteria in pig feed [PDF]

Food and Feed Research, 2017
Each category of pigs is susceptible to diseases caused by pathogenic bacteria, which negatively reflects on animal health, farm production results or meat quality.
Vukmirović Đuro M., Rakita Slađana M., Spasevski Nedeljka J., Kokić Bojana M., Banjac Vojislav V., Čabarkapa Ivana S.   +5 more
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Repetitive concussive traumatic brain injury interacts with post-injury foot shock stress to worsen social and depression-like behavior in mice.

PLoS ONE, 2013
The debilitating effects of repetitive concussive traumatic brain injury (rcTBI) have been increasingly recognized in both military and civilian populations.
Kristen C Klemenhagen, Scott P O'Brien, David L Brody   +2 more
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