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Of (stressed) mice and men

Experimenter gender affects behavioral assays of pain and stress in laboratory mice.

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M.B. is the principal investigator on a research grant funded by the National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research (NC3Rs).

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Bateson, M. Of (stressed) mice and men. Nat Methods 11, 623–624 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.2965

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