{"title":"[Radioiodine administration for the production of an athyreotic animal model].","authors":"G Hanauer","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The resection of thyroid gland with radioiodine is a painless method to eliminate the Gl. thyroidea. By the present investigation it could be demonstrated that the thyroid gland of Wistar rats with a body mass between 100 and 500 g can be safely eliminated by administering them 2 doses of 18.5 MBq (0.5 mCi) 131I with a waiting period of 7 d in between. Application of 37.0 MBq (1.0 mCi) 131I once is, with regard to the radio-hygiene, to prefer, since the rats were contaminated on the surface when administering them iodine for the second time. The success of the experiment has been controlled in vitro and in vivo. Measuring the extirpated larynx region in the borehole of a gamma counter after a diagnostic labelling has been found to be an useful control method in vitro. Histological investigation of the larynx is extremely time-consuming. Besides it was not always possible to distinguish the single radio-iodine treated groups with this method. Since there were some animals showing residual thyroid tissue, the control by means of the development of the body masses cannot be recommended. Apart from this the development of the body masses depended very much on the surrounding temperature in which the animals were kept. The rectal temperature of the rats also depended on various external disturbances, so that this parameter failed to control the function of the thyroid gland.</p>","PeriodicalId":76864,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift fur Versuchstierkunde","volume":"32 1","pages":"7-15"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13853114","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J P Koopman, P M Scholten, P C Roeleveld, Y W Velthuizen, A C Beynen
{"title":"Hardness of diet pellets and its influence on growth of pre-weaned and weaned mice.","authors":"J P Koopman, P M Scholten, P C Roeleveld, Y W Velthuizen, A C Beynen","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The hardness of 3 commercial diet pellets for laboratory rats and mice was studied. Hardness was measured as the force (kp) required to crush a diet pellet. Between-batch variation, expressed as coefficient of variation, ranged between 12 and 70%. In one type of diet hardness of the pellets varied between 4 and 50 kp. Hardness did not change during storage for a period of 8 weeks. To investigate the effect of hardness on growth performance of young mice experimental diets were prepared with identical ingredient composition but with hardness of either 15 or 45 kp. Female mice provided with hard pellets (45 kp) were not able to raise their litters. Feeding the experimental diet as 15 kp pellets resulted in a slightly retarded growth when compared with the experimental diet in the form of meal. Weaned mice were fed with the experimental diet in 4 different forms: meal, 15 kp, 45-kp and ground 45-kp pellets. Male mice, unlike females, fed the 45-kp diet grew slower than their counterparts fed the other diet forms. It is concluded that batches of extremely hard pellets may be occasionally delivered, and that such diets have undesirable effects on performance of young mice.</p>","PeriodicalId":76864,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift fur Versuchstierkunde","volume":"32 2","pages":"71-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13896352","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Transportation of rats affects behaviour of non-transported rats in the absence of physical contact (preliminary communication).","authors":"J M de Laat, G van Tintelen, A C Beynen","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We have studied the effect of transportation stress in one rat on the behaviour of another, non-transported rat in the absence of physical contact. For this purpose an open box consisting of two adjacent small fields was used. Rats were placed in these fields and their behaviour was assessed. The control measurement involved pairs of non-transported rats and the experimental pairs consisted of a transported and a non-transported rat. The non-transported rats of the experimental pairs displayed significantly increased activities of sniffing when compared with the non-transported rats of the control pairs. It is suggested that stressed animals can influence the behaviour of nearby animals.</p>","PeriodicalId":76864,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift fur Versuchstierkunde","volume":"32 5","pages":"235-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13760547","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Prolonged rat heart allograft survival and reduced graft immunogenicity after photochemical donor and transplant pretreatment.","authors":"H Oesterwitz, C Eichler, W Schneider, J Kaden","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The purpose of these experiments was to evaluate the influence of pretreatment of the heart donor with the photosensitizer 8-methoxypsoralen plus ex vivo longwave ultraviolet irradiation of the graft (PUVA) on survival time and immunogenicity of rat heart allografts in a donor-recipient combination that was different at the major histocompatibility complex (MHC). PUVA treatment of the donor hearts significantly prolonged their survival in allogeneic recipients. The efficacy of this therapy was dependent on the time of ultraviolet irradiation. Immunohistological studies using monoclonal antibodies to rat MHC class I and II antigens showed a significant reduction of class II antigen expression in heart cryostat sections after PUVA treatment. No differences were seen in the tissue distribution of class I antigen. This reduction of donor MHC class II antigens may influence the antigen presentation as well as the activation of T helper cells. In conclusion, PUVA treatment is effective to reduce the immunogenicity and to improve the graft survival time of rat heart allografts. These experimental findings are new and suggest a possible clinical application of photochemical pretreatment.</p>","PeriodicalId":76864,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift fur Versuchstierkunde","volume":"32 2","pages":"77-82"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13809252","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reduction of fluid intake in the guineapig as a measure of adaptability to new housing conditions.","authors":"M Fenske","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Adult male guineapigs transferred from colony housing with access to water bottles with a 1.4 mm (inner diameter) spout to individual metabolic cages with access to water from water bottles with a 0.7 mm spout reduce their fluid intake and body weight considerably during the 2-day experimental period. When bottles with a reduced spout were replaced by easily attainable water cups, animals show a drastic increase of fluid intake within one day. These results show that new housing conditions, e.g., the combination of novel environment and reduced spout size, strongly reduce fluid intake. As a consequence, animals reduce food intake as well as body weight.</p>","PeriodicalId":76864,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift fur Versuchstierkunde","volume":"32 3","pages":"119-22"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13920098","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Intestinal lymphomas in golden hamsters (Mesocricetus auratus).","authors":"F Jelínek","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Pathological examination of 226 adult hamsters culled in a commercial breeding colony because of health deterioration revealed malignant lymphomas arising from the intestines of 24 animals. Histologically the tumours were classified as centrocytic-centroblastic lymphomas. They were transplantable with cellular suspension, but not with serum or cell-free ascitic fluid of the tumour bearers. The tumor did not metastasize into the spleen. Other types of lymphomas were not diagnosed.</p>","PeriodicalId":76864,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift fur Versuchstierkunde","volume":"32 3","pages":"123-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13920099","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Streptozotocin-diabetic BB/OK rats accept permanently BB/OK-islet grafts without immunosuppression.","authors":"H J Hahn, B Ziegler, S Lucke","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The recurrence of hyperglycaemia after transplantation of BB rat islets in partially inbred BB rats with an autoimmune diabetes could be either caused by graft rejection or by autoimmune destruction. We investigated in the BB/OK rat substrain which does accept BB/OK rat skin grafts permanently, the survival of BB/OK islet grafts by using streptozotocin-diabetic BB/OK rats as recipients. We observed a permanent acceptance of islet grafts despite using animals inbred for only 8 generations. The results demonstrated homogeneity for islet grafts and provide evidence that an autoimmune B-cell destruction cannot be triggered by a direct (toxic effect on immune cells) or indirect (due to B-cell killing) action of a single large doses of streptozotocin in BB/OK rats.</p>","PeriodicalId":76864,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift fur Versuchstierkunde","volume":"32 3","pages":"135-40"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13672560","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[The effect of cage type and population density on the body weight development of laboratory mice].","authors":"U Renne","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The effect of different keeping conditions on body weight gain was studied in 200 male Fzt:DU mice between days 21 and 70 of life. The animals were divided in four different housing groups: DU-B (housing in stress cages), DU-B+HI (housing in stress cages and afterwards in standard cages type HI), DU-HI (housing in standard cages type HI) and DU-S+AP (housing in standard group cages). Housing in stress cages resulted in lower body weight gain at every age; subsequent housing in standard cages type HI for one week failed to compensate this effects. Likewise, keeping of four mice in standard cages type I (DU-HI) between days 42 and 70 of life also resulted in delayed body weight gain. It is possible that the chosen population density was not an optimum for normal weight gain during the adult life. Animals kept in standard stocking cages (DU-S+AP) had the highest body weight gain.</p>","PeriodicalId":76864,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift fur Versuchstierkunde","volume":"32 4","pages":"153-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13767763","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R Boot, J P Koopman, A Lankhorst, A M Stadhouders, G W Welling, M P Hectors
{"title":"Intestinal \"normalization\" of germ-free rabbits with rabbit caecal microflora: effect of dosing regimens.","authors":"R Boot, J P Koopman, A Lankhorst, A M Stadhouders, G W Welling, M P Hectors","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Hysterectomy-derived germ-free (GF) rabbits were given strictly anaerobic microflora obtained from the caecum of an antibiotic-decontaminated conventional rabbit. One group was given the caecal flora diluted in doe's milk. The second group received caecal flora without doe's milk and administration of the flora was repeated when the animals were given pelleted diet. Body weight and intestinal parameters determined in the two groups of rabbits were compared with values in rabbits conventionally raised with the doe. In GF rabbits given caecal flora, the values for most intestinal parameters were similar to values recorded in conventional animals. However colonization resistance to Escherichia coli was limited in GF rabbits given caecal flora diluted in doe's milk and severely impaired in GF rabbits given caecal flora without doe's milk, although relative caecal weight was normal. It is concluded that enteric microfloras should be preferably incorporated in doe's milk when dosed to GF rabbits to obtain acceptable gastrointestinal \"normalization\".</p>","PeriodicalId":76864,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift fur Versuchstierkunde","volume":"32 2","pages":"83-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13896353","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Model-based analysis of survival experiments with zero and non-zero final survivors.","authors":"J Sühnel","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Modified logistic, Weibull and Gompertz survival models are described which are suitable for the model-based analysis of survival experiments with both zero and non-zero final survivors. They are applied to 3 examples: the influence of food restriction and body fat on the life span of mice and the effect of an immunosuppressant and of an antiviral agent on experimentally virus-infected mice. It is shown that besides the median survival time and the fraction of animals finally surviving the hazard rate at the median survival time, the ratio of maximum to minimum survival time and the area under the survival curve are useful parameters for a more detailed analysis of survival experiments. Hazard plots display differences between experiments more clearly than survival curves. The models described provide a powerful tool which is appropriate for a great variety of different survival experiments. The model-based analysis of survival data is also a prerequisite for the development of computerized data bases on the survival behaviour of laboratory animals. The approach presented can be easily generalized to cases for which spontaneous mortality and mortality due to an experimental challenge interfere.</p>","PeriodicalId":76864,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift fur Versuchstierkunde","volume":"32 4","pages":"157-65"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13769296","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}