Lab AnimalPub Date : 2024-11-26DOI: 10.1038/s41684-024-01488-y
Alexandra Le Bras
{"title":"Studying microglia’s role in APOE4-related pathology","authors":"Alexandra Le Bras","doi":"10.1038/s41684-024-01488-y","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41684-024-01488-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17936,"journal":{"name":"Lab Animal","volume":"53 12","pages":"360-360"},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41684-024-01488-y.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142714745","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lab AnimalPub Date : 2024-11-26DOI: 10.1038/s41684-024-01481-5
Jorge Ferreira
{"title":"COVID-19 affects vitamin D metabolism in the kidney","authors":"Jorge Ferreira","doi":"10.1038/s41684-024-01481-5","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41684-024-01481-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17936,"journal":{"name":"Lab Animal","volume":"53 12","pages":"355-355"},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142713082","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lab AnimalPub Date : 2024-11-26DOI: 10.1038/s41684-024-01486-0
Jorge Ferreira
{"title":"Sex differences in response to stress and alcohol abuse","authors":"Jorge Ferreira","doi":"10.1038/s41684-024-01486-0","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41684-024-01486-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17936,"journal":{"name":"Lab Animal","volume":"53 12","pages":"358-358"},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41684-024-01486-0.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142714737","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lab AnimalPub Date : 2024-11-25DOI: 10.1038/s41684-024-01473-5
Cedric Moro, Christophe Magnan
{"title":"Revisited guidelines for metabolic tolerance tests in mice","authors":"Cedric Moro, Christophe Magnan","doi":"10.1038/s41684-024-01473-5","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41684-024-01473-5","url":null,"abstract":"Preclinical mouse models are extensively used in biomedical research to gain insight into disease mechanisms and to test new drug treatments. Glucose and insulin tolerance tests are simple experimental tests frequently used worldwide to assess glucose metabolism in mice. Various guidelines and methodological considerations have been published to help researchers standardize procedures and optimize research outcomes. Yet, there is still important experimental heterogeneity in the way these simple procedures are performed, with no real consensus on what the best practices are to achieve high-quality research and reproducible results. Here we critically examine several published guidelines and recent technical reports on how to perform these metabolic tests in laboratory mice and discuss the influence of various confounding factors on test results. We hope this work will help scientists establish more consensual guidelines for maximizing the relevance and clinical translation of studies using mouse models in metabolic research. In this Review, the authors examine current guidelines for metabolic tolerance tests in mice and provide a set of revisited recommendations to improve the reproducibility and clinical translation of the findings.","PeriodicalId":17936,"journal":{"name":"Lab Animal","volume":"54 1","pages":"16-23"},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41684-024-01473-5.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142697096","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lab AnimalPub Date : 2024-11-22DOI: 10.1038/s41684-024-01459-3
Lauren A. Burgett, Theres B. Alexander, Haley A. Moya, Marcy A. Kingsbury
{"title":"A revision to marble burying: video analysis during the marble burying task is imperative to understanding rodent behavior","authors":"Lauren A. Burgett, Theres B. Alexander, Haley A. Moya, Marcy A. Kingsbury","doi":"10.1038/s41684-024-01459-3","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41684-024-01459-3","url":null,"abstract":"The translational value of the marble burying task (MBT) is debatable. Here we performed video analysis of behaviors during the MBT to accurately capture the details of all behaviors displayed during this task. Our results show that a count of marbles buried at the end of the task may not be a good translational correlate of the ‘intentional marble burying’ that the task is assumed to measure. Rather, the number of marbles buried may be measuring accidental marble burying due to ‘rapid digging’. Video analysis during MBT provides a novel approach to characterize the many behaviors displayed during this task and may explain inconsistencies reported in the literature. However, the number of marbles buried at the end of the MBT may still have value as a screening test for anxiogenic or anxiolytic interventions. Any interventions that show significant alterations in the number of marbles buried can be pursued further through more robust and comprehensive behavior scoring methods. The marble burying task (MBT) is used to measure anxiety-like behavior, relying on a snapshot of the number of marbles buried at the end of the test. This Brief Communication introduces a more extensive behavioral analysis to improve the translational value of MBT for clinical psychological phenotypes.","PeriodicalId":17936,"journal":{"name":"Lab Animal","volume":"53 12","pages":"387-389"},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142684290","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lab AnimalPub Date : 2024-11-15DOI: 10.1038/s41684-024-01472-6
Maria Victoria Gómez-Gaviro, Vicente Llorente
{"title":"In vivo optical tissue clearing using light-absorbing dyes","authors":"Maria Victoria Gómez-Gaviro, Vicente Llorente","doi":"10.1038/s41684-024-01472-6","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41684-024-01472-6","url":null,"abstract":"Optical tissue clearing allows high-resolution microscopy imaging of biological samples while retaining critical three-dimensional and structural information for research and diagnosis. Most methods can only be performed ex vivo on fixed tissues, but a new study claims to have found a technique that can render live tissue transparent.","PeriodicalId":17936,"journal":{"name":"Lab Animal","volume":"53 12","pages":"361-362"},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142637549","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}