Laboratory AnimalsPub Date : 2024-06-01Epub Date: 2023-12-05DOI: 10.1177/00236772231198733
Lynne U Sneddon, Paul Schroeder, Ana Roque, Karin Finger-Baier, Angeleen Fleming, Simon Tinman, Bertrand Collet
{"title":"Pain management in zebrafish : Report from a FELASA Working Group.","authors":"Lynne U Sneddon, Paul Schroeder, Ana Roque, Karin Finger-Baier, Angeleen Fleming, Simon Tinman, Bertrand Collet","doi":"10.1177/00236772231198733","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00236772231198733","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Empirical evidence suggests fishes meet the criteria for experiencing pain beyond a reasonable doubt and zebrafish are being increasingly used in studies of pain and nociception. Zebrafish are adopted across a wide range of experimental fields and their use is growing particularly in biomedical studies. Many laboratory procedures in zebrafish involve tissue damage and this may give rise to pain. Therefore, this FELASA Working Group reviewed the evidence for pain in zebrafish, the indicators used to assess pain and the impact of a range of drugs with pain-relieving properties. We report that there are several behavioural indicators that can be used to determine pain, including reduced activity, space use and distance travelled. Pain-relieving drugs prevent these responses, and we highlight the dose and administration route. To minimise or avoid pain, several refinements are suggested for common laboratory procedures. Finally, practical suggestions are made for the management and alleviation of pain in laboratory zebrafish, including recommendations for analgesia. Pain management is an important refinement in experimental animal use and so our report has the potential to improve zebrafish welfare during and after invasive procedures in laboratories across the globe.</p>","PeriodicalId":18013,"journal":{"name":"Laboratory Animals","volume":" ","pages":"261-276"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11264547/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138487907","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Laboratory AnimalsPub Date : 2024-06-01Epub Date: 2024-02-09DOI: 10.1177/00236772231169344
Kristian Stærk, Louise Langhorn, Bo Halle, Thomas Emil Andersen
{"title":"Urinary bladder catheterisation of female pigs: Influence of bladder content and <i>Escherichia coli</i> urinary tract infection on procedural outcome.","authors":"Kristian Stærk, Louise Langhorn, Bo Halle, Thomas Emil Andersen","doi":"10.1177/00236772231169344","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00236772231169344","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Catheterisation of the urinary bladder is needed in many types of human disease models in pigs. Based on our extensive experience with the pig as an infection model, we here demonstrate an approach of catheterising domestic pigs (40 attempts) and Göttingen minipigs (10 attempts) using a blinded method, that is, without speculums or videoscopes to visualise the urethral opening. The procedure was tested on control animals and pigs with experimental <i>Escherichia coli</i> urinary tract infection (UTI) to assess the potential influence of this condition on procedural outcome. Lastly, we performed cystoscopy in three animals to visualise the route to the urethra and to localise potential anatomical obstacles. All domestic pigs were catheterised successfully in an average of 2 minutes and 23 seconds, and this was not influenced by UTI (<i>p</i> = 0.06) or bladder urine content at the time of catheterisation (<i>p</i> = 0.32). All Göttingen minipigs were successfully catheterised in an average of 4 minutes and 27 seconds. We conclude that blinded catheterisation is a fast and reliable approach that can be performed in pigs with or without UTI with minimal risk of trauma or contamination.</p>","PeriodicalId":18013,"journal":{"name":"Laboratory Animals","volume":" ","pages":"252-260"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139707116","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}
Laboratory AnimalsPub Date : 2024-06-01Epub Date: 2024-02-14DOI: 10.1177/00236772231192030
José C Bravo, Lierni Ugartemendia, Arko Barman, Ana B Rodríguez, José A Pariente, Rafael Bravo
{"title":"Bibliometric analysis on cannibalism/infanticide and maternal aggression towards pups in laboratory rodents.","authors":"José C Bravo, Lierni Ugartemendia, Arko Barman, Ana B Rodríguez, José A Pariente, Rafael Bravo","doi":"10.1177/00236772231192030","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00236772231192030","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Animal welfare has evolved during the past decades to improve not only the quality of life of laboratory rodents but also the quality and reproducibility of scientific investigations. Bibliometric analysis has become an important tool to complete the current knowledge with academic databases. Our objective was to investigate whether scientific research on cannibalism/infanticide is connected with maternal aggression towards the offspring in laboratory rodents. To carry out our research, we performed a specific search for published articles on each concept. Results were analyzed in the open-source environment RStudio with the package Bibliometrix. We obtained 253 and 134 articles for the first search (cannibalism/infanticide) and the second search (maternal aggression towards the pups) respectively. We observed that the interest in infanticide/cannibalism started in the 1950s, while researchers started showing interest in maternal aggression towards the pups 30 years later. Our analyses indicated that maternal aggression had better citations in scientific literature. In addition, although our results showed some common features (e.g. oxytocin or medial preoptic area in the brain), we observed a gap between cannibalism/infanticide and maternal aggression towards the pups with only 14 published articles in common for both the searches. Therefore, we recommend researchers to combine both concepts in further investigations in the context of cannibalism for better dissemination and higher impact in laboratory rodents' welfare research.</p>","PeriodicalId":18013,"journal":{"name":"Laboratory Animals","volume":" ","pages":"240-251"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139729950","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}
{"title":"LAS around the globe. Balancing between bureaucracy and good science in Greece.","authors":"Anastasia S Tsingotjidou","doi":"10.1177/00236772231201076","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00236772231201076","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18013,"journal":{"name":"Laboratory Animals","volume":"58 3","pages":"207-208"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141446480","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}
Laboratory AnimalsPub Date : 2024-04-01Epub Date: 2023-09-15DOI: 10.1177/00236772231194389
Mariana Ferreira-Duarte, Igor Moreira Lopes, Manuela Morato, Margarida Duarte-Araújo
{"title":"Rats prefer condensed milk to strawberry jam - a new possibility for voluntary oral drug administration.","authors":"Mariana Ferreira-Duarte, Igor Moreira Lopes, Manuela Morato, Margarida Duarte-Araújo","doi":"10.1177/00236772231194389","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00236772231194389","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Voluntary oral drug administration using sweet substances promotes rodents' therapeutic compliance while reducing stress induced by forced drug administration. We aimed to test whether rats would willingly eat strawberry jam or condensed milk from a syringe, and which one they would prefer. Our results show that rats prefer condensed milk, demonstrating its potential as a vehicle for the voluntary oral administration of drugs in experimental protocols.</p>","PeriodicalId":18013,"journal":{"name":"Laboratory Animals","volume":" ","pages":"160-163"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10235426","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}
Laboratory AnimalsPub Date : 2024-04-01Epub Date: 2023-09-20DOI: 10.1177/00236772231178433
Ady Eliav, Ron Ofri, Kelsey Brust, Yishai Kushnir, Yael Shilo-Benjamini
{"title":"Improving rat welfare through the development of a peribulbar anaesthesia technique for ophthalmic procedures: A preliminary study.","authors":"Ady Eliav, Ron Ofri, Kelsey Brust, Yishai Kushnir, Yael Shilo-Benjamini","doi":"10.1177/00236772231178433","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00236772231178433","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Rats are a commonly used animal model for the study of the pathogenesis and novel treatments of glaucoma, which is induced experimentally using invasive, painful procedures. Peribulbar anaesthesia (PBA) is frequently used in people and domestic animals prior to ophthalmic surgeries to provide excellent perioperative analgesia. Our goal was to develop a PBA technique adapted to rat anatomy, improving the welfare of animals used as a model for glaucoma. Eighteen rat cadavers (<i>n</i> = 36 eyes) were used to establish the optimal needle insertion location. Five injection techniques using 0.1 mL/100 g lidocaine 2% and a contrast agent (1:1 volume ratio) were compared via computed tomography (CT). CT images were scored for injectate distribution at four locations: extraconal, intraconal, around the optic nerve and at the orbital fissure (scale 0-8, where 0 = none and 8 = excellent). Median scores using the dorso-medial-75° (5; range 2-6) and medial-canthus (4.5; range 2-8) injection techniques were not different from the dorso-medial-45° (4; range 3-6) technique and were higher (better distribution) compared with mid-ventral (3; range 2-5) and ventro-lateral (2; range 1-3) techniques. The two superior techniques were used in two experimental rats (<i>n</i> = 4 eyes) to determine the volume of bupivacaine 0.5% necessary to affect corneal touch threshold (CTT) and periocular skin sensitivity (PSS). A volume of 0.05 mL/100 g decreased CTT and PSS for several hours, while a larger volume produced excessively long effects. Dorso-medial-75° or medial-canthus PBA using 0.05 mL/100 g bupivacaine are likely to provide ocular and periocular analgesia in rats, with minor transient adverse effects.</p>","PeriodicalId":18013,"journal":{"name":"Laboratory Animals","volume":" ","pages":"116-126"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41136861","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}
{"title":"LASA 60th Annual Meeting - Championing Public Engagement with \"Snippets of the 3Rs\".","authors":"Sophie Kimpton, Jamie Redden","doi":"10.1177/00236772241232911","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00236772241232911","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18013,"journal":{"name":"Laboratory Animals","volume":"58 2","pages":"188-189"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140958080","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}
Laboratory AnimalsPub Date : 2024-04-01Epub Date: 2023-09-20DOI: 10.1177/00236772231181658
Junmin Song, Marco Solmi, Andre F Carvalho, Jae Il Shin, John Pa Ioannidis
{"title":"Twelve years after the ARRIVE guidelines: Animal research has not yet arrived at high standards.","authors":"Junmin Song, Marco Solmi, Andre F Carvalho, Jae Il Shin, John Pa Ioannidis","doi":"10.1177/00236772231181658","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00236772231181658","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The reproducibility crisis across animal studies jeopardizes the credibility of the main findings derived from animal research, even though these findings are critical for informing human studies. To clarify and improve transparency among animal studies, the ARRIVE reporting guidelines were first announced in 2010 and upgraded to version 2.0 in 2020. However, compliance with and awareness of those reporting guidelines has remained suboptimal. Journal editors should encourage the authors to adhere to those guidelines. Authors, editors, referees, and reviewers should be aware of the ARRIVE guideline 2.0 when assessing and evaluating the methodology and findings of animal studies. However, we should also question whether reporting guidelines alone can change a research culture and improve the reproducibility of animal investigations. Reported research may not reflect actual research. Large segments of animal research efforts are wasted because of poor design choices and because of non-publication rather than suboptimal reporting. Better training of the scientific workforce, interventions at improving animal research at the design stage, registration practices, and alignment of the reward system with the publication of rigorous animal research may achieve more than reporting guidelines alone.</p>","PeriodicalId":18013,"journal":{"name":"Laboratory Animals","volume":" ","pages":"109-115"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41117029","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}