Protecting experimental animals

Scorpion Venom Pisoning in Experimental Animals

Fasting and Experimental Animals, Detrimental or Positive?

While fasting has been practiced for centuries, its beneficial effects was unknown until recently. This review tries to analyze the current literature of how fasting and intermittent fasting (IF) could affect clinical pathological parameters, learning, mood and brain plasticity. The effects of different ways of fasting on metabolism and stress were also explored. Animal experiments have elucida...

Use of experimental animals.

I shall deal briefly this morning with three topics: (1) the different species and strains of animals to be employed in experimental studies-of bowel cancer with asbestos; (2) combinations of carcinogens; and (3) the difficult and debatable tumors that one sees in experimental animals. I am glad to see that in South Africa baboons are also being used. Frequently Wistar rats are used .or rats of...

Advance Publication Experimental Animals

Advance Publication Experimental Animals

20 Isoflurane is a representative inhalant anesthesia used in laboratory animals. 21 However, isoflurane mediates respiratory depression and adverse clinical reactions 22 during induction. In the present study, we established a novel balanced anesthesia 23 method in mice that combined isoflurane anesthesia with midazolam and butorphanol 24 (MB). 25 Thirty-four male C57BL/6J mice received either...