A “how-to” guide for designing judgment bias studies to assess captive animal welfare

EJ Bethell - Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Robust methods to assess nonhuman animal emotion are essential for ensuring good
welfare in captivity. Cognitive bias measures such as the judgment bias task have recently …

Limits to using HPA axis activity as an indication of animal welfare

P Otovic, E Hutchinson - ALTEX-Alternatives to animal experimentation, 2015 - altex.org
HPA axis activity is often measured by corticosteroid release as a means to evaluate stress
and well-being in animals. While the analysis of corticosteroid levels can provide useful …

Chronic subordinate colony housing paradigm: a mouse model to characterize the consequences of insufficient glucocorticoid signaling

D Langgartner, AM Füchsl, N Uschold-Schmidt… - Frontiers in …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Chronic, in particular chronic psychosocial, stress is a burden of modern societies and
known to be a risk factor for numerous somatic and affective disorders (in detail referenced …

Opposite effects of early-life competition and developmental telomere attrition on cognitive biases in juvenile European starlings

M Bateson, M Emmerson, G Ergün, P Monaghan… - Plos one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Moods are enduring affective states that we hypothesise should be affected by an
individual's developmental experience and its current somatic state. We tested whether early …

IL-4 knock out mice display anxiety-like behavior

ML Moon, JJ Joesting, NA Blevins, MA Lawson… - Behavior genetics, 2015 - Springer
Inflammation is a recognized antecedent and coincident factor when examining the biology
of anxiety. Little is known, however, about how reductions in endogenous anti-inflammatory …

[DOC][DOC] Systematic Review Protocol for Animal Intervention Studies

A General - 2015 - researchgate.net
Background 10. What is already known about this disease/model/intervention? Why is it
important to do this review? Aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage (aSAH) is associated …