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From: Different stress-related phenotypes of BALB/c mice from in-house or vendor: alterations of the sympathetic and HPA axis responsiveness

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Kinetics of glucocorticoid levels and lymphocyte counts after transportation stress. A. Plasma corticosterone levels of female mice that were shipped for 18 h from vendor at the age of six weeks compared with gender and age-matched animals of in-house breeding that only underwent room change; measured immediately after transport, one day later and in the following three weeks (ANOVA for effects of breeding conditions F = 9.4, p < 0.0046; ANOVA for effects of time F = 6.03, p = 0.0011). B, C. Kinetics of total white blood cells (WBCs) and lymphocyte counts in the blood of mice after over-night transport from vendor compared with lymphocyte numbers of animals from own breeding facility (ANOVA for effects of breeding conditions F = 0.53, p = 0.4711; ANOVA for effects of time F = 3.02, p = 0.033); n = 4-20 mice/group *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01 comparison with basal levels of healthy control mice; ##p < 0.01, ###p < 0.001 comparision with vendor-derived mice at day 22; comparison by Turkey testing.

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