Fig. 3.

Animal distress after laparotomy plus carcinoma cell injection (CI). Distress score (A), burrowing behaviour (B), percentage of body weight change (C), nesting score (D), HR (E), Act (F), BT (G) and FCMs (H) were evaluated before (−1), on the day after surgery (0) and on recovery day 1–3. Significance was analysed for non-parametric data and data in percent with the Friedman test followed by Dunn’s method (A–E). Parametric data was determined by repeated measures one-way ANOVA followed by multiple comparisons via Tukey’s test (F-H): P ≤ 0.05 significant to indicated day (n = 9). For details, see Table 2.