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Extended oxygen supplementation after thoracotomy in rats may improve welfare. 大鼠胸廓切开术后延长氧气补充时间可改善福利。

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Laboratory Animals Pub Date : 2024-11-04 DOI: 10.1177/00236772241273061

Bryony Few, Alex Dugdale

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An innovative approach for health and safety training and occupational health program annual enrollment for laboratory animal care and use personnel. 为实验室动物护理和使用人员提供健康与安全培训和职业健康计划年度注册的创新方法。

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Laboratory Animals Pub Date : 2024-11-04 DOI: 10.1177/00236772241263903

Scott J Patlovich, Robert J Emery, Kristin G King, Zackary B Becker, Rebecca B Kairis, Mary A Robinson, Joy M Harrison, George Delclos, William B Perkison

{"title":"An innovative approach for health and safety training and occupational health program annual enrollment for laboratory animal care and use personnel.","authors":"Scott J Patlovich, Robert J Emery, Kristin G King, Zackary B Becker, Rebecca B Kairis, Mary A Robinson, Joy M Harrison, George Delclos, William B Perkison","doi":"10.1177/00236772241263903","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00236772241263903","url":null,"abstract":"Animal care and use personnel in research laboratory facilities are inherently exposed to a variety of workplace hazards. The health and safety of the workforce working directly with or around research animals is of paramount importance, and as such, an occupational health and safety program for at-risk staff is essential. In order to maximize participation in and the effectiveness of health and safety training and occupational health program enrollment for animal care and use personnel at an academic health sciences university, an innovative annual \"health fair\" was developed and implemented at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. This event allows personnel working in positions that present exposure risk to research animals to be able to obtain hazard-specific health and safety training, re-enroll in the occupational health oversight program and update their medical history, and participate in the institution's other safety programs as required by job title or assigned job tasks. By providing a comprehensive health fair that offers convenient access to the necessary safety training and occupational health services in one location during a designated period of time, management and staff are incentivized to participate and have reported satisfaction with and appreciation of the convenient access. Summarized here is how we plan, organize, and effectively execute the annual health fair so that other institutions who might wish to use this strategy can learn from our approach.","PeriodicalId":18013,"journal":{"name":"Laboratory Animals","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142576255","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Animal researchers' views on the publication of negative results and subsequent policy adoptions. 动物研究人员对公布负面结果的看法以及随后采取的政策。

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Laboratory Animals Pub Date : 2024-10-24 DOI: 10.1177/00236772241271039

Carlos Oscar S Sorzano, Daniel G Hamilton, Eva Mendez

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Spontaneous hepatocellular and gastric tumours in African clawed frogs (Xenopus laevis). 非洲爪蛙（Xenopus laevis）的自发性肝细胞瘤和胃瘤。

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Laboratory Animals Pub Date : 2024-10-22 DOI: 10.1177/00236772241273060

Bernat Martí-García, Simon L Priestnall, Yolanda Saavedra Torres, Alejandro Suárez-Bonnet

{"title":"Spontaneous hepatocellular and gastric tumours in African clawed frogs (Xenopus laevis).","authors":"Bernat Martí-García, Simon L Priestnall, Yolanda Saavedra Torres, Alejandro Suárez-Bonnet","doi":"10.1177/00236772241273060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00236772241273060","url":null,"abstract":"Three seven-year-old African clawed frogs (Xenopus laevis) from an animal research facility showed weight loss, coelomic distention and an abnormal swimming gait were euthanised on welfare grounds. A complete necropsy of each animal showed a focal, firm, dark brown to green mass with multifocal haemorrhages in the left liver lobe in two animals and a transmural, firm, beige, multilobulated gastric mass in another animal. Additionally, one of the frogs with the hepatic mass had haemocoeloma. Histologically, the hepatic masses were diagnosed as hepatocellular adenomas and the gastric mass as a gastric carcinoma with trans-coelomic metastases. The three tumours were immunophenotyped using the following antibodies: cytokeratin AE1/AE3, vimentin, E-cadherin, P53 and Ki67 and, additionally, for the hepatic tumours only, synaptophysin, Prox-1, S100 and Sox-9. Masson's trichrome, Periodic acid Schiff and Gram stains was also performed in selected cases. One of the hepatocellular adenomas was weakly positively labelled with E-cadherin whereas the other showed variable positivity for Sox-9 only. Vimentin labelled the stroma and sinusoidal endothelia. Interestingly in the liver, the cytokeratin AE1/AE3 labelling was restricted to the biliary epithelium and sinusoidal endothelia. The gastric carcinoma labelled positively with cytokeratin AE1/AE3 only. This report aims to guide laboratory animal veterinarians to accurately diagnose multi-organ masses in amphibians. To the authors' knowledge, this is the first comprehensive morphological study on a case series of hepatocellular and gastric neoplasia in X. laevis.","PeriodicalId":18013,"journal":{"name":"Laboratory Animals","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142469015","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) characterisation of mouse inbred strains bred at MRC-National Institute for Medical Research. 英国国家医学研究所（MRC-National Institute for Medical Research）培育的小鼠近交系的单核苷酸多态性（SNP）特征。

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Laboratory Animals Pub Date : 2024-10-13 DOI: 10.1177/00236772241273070

José M Sánchez-Morgado

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Comparison of inferior vena cava puncture under continuous cardiac perfusion with cardiac puncture in blood acquisition of the laboratory mouse. 比较在持续心脏灌注下进行下腔静脉穿刺和在实验室小鼠血液采集中进行心脏穿刺。

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Laboratory Animals Pub Date : 2024-10-11 DOI: 10.1177/00236772241256023

Wengang Hu, Hao Sheng, JiaCai Yang, Cheng Chen, Ruoyu Shang, Zhihui Liu, Xiaohong Hu, Xiaorong Zhang, Weifeng He, Chibing Huang, Gaoxing Luo

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Development of a center for automated equipment processing to transform the research enterprise configuration. 建立自动化设备处理中心，改造科研企业配置。

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Laboratory Animals Pub Date : 2024-10-11 DOI: 10.1177/00236772241262827

Philip J Richter, Albert LeClair, Harry Lim

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Decision trees for determining the fate of laboratory animals. 决定实验动物命运的决策树。

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Laboratory Animals Pub Date : 2024-10-08 DOI: 10.1177/00236772241271034

Myhailo Reshetnykov, Karen Stumm, Michael Zwick, Jan Baumgart

{"title":"Decision trees for determining the fate of laboratory animals.","authors":"Myhailo Reshetnykov, Karen Stumm, Michael Zwick, Jan Baumgart","doi":"10.1177/00236772241271034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00236772241271034","url":null,"abstract":"Facilities involved in laboratory animal research often face ethical challenges such as: what should I do with the animals that are no longer suitable for experimental purposes? One of the common answers to this question is to kill them. And while numerous scientifically justifiable reasons exist for killing laboratory animals, we must not overlook our ethical responsibility towards these sentient beings. Animal facility managers and scientists frequently find themselves in a moral dilemma, torn between furthering their research and addressing the well-being of experimental animals required for their studies. We elaborated a concept consisting of six decision trees and recommendations for making informed decisions about the need to kill laboratory animals in research facilities, considering legal and ethical considerations. The concept is based on the German regulatory perspective. However, the measures and decisions for animal welfare can be implemented in all laboratory animal facilities. These recommendations suggest several courses of action, including implementing consistent breeding plans, exploring alternative uses, reassigning surplus animals and their organs, and establishing appropriate housing capacity limits that ensure species-appropriate care. We encourage scientists and animal facility managers to develop and implement decision-making frameworks and procedures tailored to their specific facilities, in the hope that this work will promote a thoughtful and responsible approach to the complex challenges associated with the killing of laboratory animals, advancing scientific progress and the humane treatment of these animals.","PeriodicalId":18013,"journal":{"name":"Laboratory Animals","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142391622","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Mouse aversion to induction with isoflurane using the drop method. 使用滴注法诱导小鼠厌恶异氟醚。

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Laboratory Animals Pub Date : 2024-10-04 DOI: 10.1177/00236772241262119

Maya J Bodnar, I Joanna Makowska, Courtney T Boyd, Catherine A Schuppli, Daniel M Weary

{"title":"Mouse aversion to induction with isoflurane using the drop method.","authors":"Maya J Bodnar, I Joanna Makowska, Courtney T Boyd, Catherine A Schuppli, Daniel M Weary","doi":"10.1177/00236772241262119","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00236772241262119","url":null,"abstract":"Isoflurane anesthesia prior to carbon dioxide euthanasia is recognized as a refinement by many guidelines. Facilities lacking access to a vaporizer can use the \"drop\" method, whereby liquid anesthetic is introduced into an induction chamber. Knowing the least aversive concentration of isoflurane is critical. Previous work has demonstrated that isoflurane administered with the drop method at a concentration of 5% is aversive to mice. Other work has shown that lower concentrations (1.7% to 3.7%) of isoflurane can be used to anesthetize mice with the drop method, but aversion to these concentrations has not been tested. We assessed aversion to these lower isoflurane concentrations administered with the drop method, using a conditioned place aversion (CPA) paradigm. Female C57BL/6J (OT-1) mice (n = 28) were randomly allocated to one of three isoflurane concentrations: 1.7%, 2.7%, and 3.7%. Mice were acclimated to a light-dark apparatus. Prior to and following dark (+ isoflurane) and light chamber conditioning sessions, mice underwent an initial and final preference assessment; the change in the duration spent within the dark chamber between the initial and final preference tests was used to calculate a CPA score. Aversion increased with increasing isoflurane concentration: from 1.7% to 2.7% to 3.7% isoflurane, mean ± SE CPA score decreased from 19.6 ± 20.1 s to -25.6 ± 23.2 s, to -116.9 ± 30.6 s (F1,54 = 15.4, p < 0.001). Our results suggest that, when using the drop method to administer isoflurane, concentrations between 1.7% and 2.7% can be used to minimize female mouse aversion to induction.","PeriodicalId":18013,"journal":{"name":"Laboratory Animals","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142372228","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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How cage effects can hurt statistical analyses of completely randomized designs. 笼效应如何影响完全随机设计的统计分析？

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Laboratory Animals Pub Date : 2024-10-01 Epub Date: 2024-09-24 DOI: 10.1177/00236772241276785

Reid D Landes

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