Requirements of biomedical research in terms of housing and husbandry: Neuroscience (1997)

Fuchs, E.

Abstract

Housing conditions are among the parameters which are important contributors to the nature, quality, and reproducibility of research obtained in laboratory animal investigations. ... It is absolutely important that the animals are able to display as many aspects of their natural behavioural repertoire and confounding factors such as abnormal behavior, injuries, diseases, and stress are excluded.