The effects of mining machinery noise of different frequencies on the behaviour, faecal corticosterone and tissue morphology of wild mice (Mus musculus)
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: anthropogenic noise, circling, high frequency, low frequency, mining, stress
2017
Evaluation of perlite, wood shavings and corncobs for bedding material in rats
Publication/Journal: Journal of the South African Veterinary Association
Keywords: blood, c57bl/6 mice, cage-cleaning frequency, nesting materials, parameters, rodents, stress, toxicology, veterinary sciences, welfare
2017
Hang on: an evaluation of the hemp rope as environmental enrichment in C57BL/6 mice
Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare
Keywords: aggression, animal welfare, environmental enrichment, mice, stress, wounds
2017
The impact of bedding volumes on laboratory mice
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: bedding volume, body temperature, corticosterone, food intake, mice, preference test
2017
Introducing Clicker Training as a Cognitive Enrichment for Laboratory Mice
Publication/Journal: Journal of Visualized Experiments
Keywords: 3rs, anxiety, balb/c, behavior, clicker training, enrichment, environmental enrichment, issue 121, mouse, multidisciplinary sciences, pigs, positive reinforcement training, rats, refinement, stress response, welfare, well-being
2017
Ovariectomy influences the circadian rhythm of locomotor activity and the photic phase shifts in the volcano mouse
Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior
Keywords: circadian locomotor activity, neotomodon alstoni, ovary, photic phase shifting
2017
Abnormal behaviour with a focus on stereotypies – indicators of suffering and impaired welfare?
Publication/Journal: Berliner Und Munchener Tierarztliche Wochenschrift
Keywords: abnormal behaviour, animal housing, animals, cognitive enrichment, domestic, environmental enrichment, farm, farm-animal welfare, feather pecking, laboratory mice, open-field behavior, oral stereotypies, pigs, repetitive behavior, veterinary sciences, weaned piglets
2016
Aggressive interactions are associated with reductions in RFamide-related peptide, but not kisspeptin, neuronal activation in mice
Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior
Keywords: agonistic, challenge effect, gnih, metastin, rfrp
2016
Antagonism of V1b receptors promotes maternal motivation to retrieve pups in the MPOA and impairs pup-directed behavior during maternal defense in the mpBNST of lactating rats
Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior
Keywords: arginine-vasopressin, maternal aggression, maternal care, maternal defense test, pup retrieval test, ssr149415, v1a receptor, v1b receptor
2016
Are age and sex differences in brain oxytocin receptors related to maternal and infanticidal behavior in naïve mice?
Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior
Keywords: development, hypothalamus, infanticidal behavior, mouse, olfaction, oxytocin receptor, parental behavior
2016