OBJECTIVE The aim was to compare 2 disposable insulin pens, FlexTouch® (Novo Nordisk, insulin aspart) and SoloSTAR® (Sanofi, insulin glulisine), according to new ISO 11608-1:2012 requirements for dosing accuracy. METHODS Sixty pens of each type were tested at 1, 40, and 80 U doses. Following the new ISO requirements, each dose was delivered from the front, middle, and rear one-third of the pe...

To study the effects of environmental enrichment on physiological responses to stressors and behavior in growing pigs, pigs were housed in either a poor environment (standard farrowing pens followed by standard rearing and fattening pens) or in an enriched environment (larger farrowing pens followed by larger rearing and fattening pens, provision of straw). Body temperature, heart rate and sali...

Diabetes treatment is associated with different costs depending upon the type of curative approach used. Most of the time, insulin is administered by two main techniques: cartridges and vials. Insulin pens have emerged as alternative devices for insulin administration. In 2009, the consumption of insulin through insulin pens/cartridges in high-income countries is about 90% while in low-income c...

A study was conducted to compare the growth performance as well as blood and carcass variables of two broiler strains reared in a conventional broiler house and a modified greenhouse equipped with cooling pads and tunnel ventilation system. Eight hundred day-old chickens of two commercial strains (Ross  308 and Lohmann) were selected and placed in  8 floor pens (4 pens of  50 broilers for each ...

Dear Sir, We wish to provide readers with an update on an article published in Eplasty in 2009.1 Our original article reported the performance of commercially available skin marker pens after application of a chlorhexidine-based skin preparation and compared those performances with that of traditional marker pens. Preoperative skin preparation with chlorhexidine-based solution is preferred over...

The long term aim with this study was to identify predictors or early indicators of tail biting outbreaks using registrations from electronic feeders. This study is based on information about daily frequency of feeder visits (DFV) and daily feed consumption (DFC) recorded in electronic feeders from 460 noncastrated boars in tail biting pens (TB pens, n = 21) and matched control pens (Con pens, ...