Formula for Success
By Barbara Mickelson, Ph.D.
What you should know about reducing experimental variation through proper selection of diet for laboratory rats and mice.
Measuring Food and Water Intake in Rats and Mice
By Edward A Ulman, PH.D, Douglas Compton, Jarek Kochanek
Eating and drinking support life and are compelled and controlled by positive drives of hunger and thirst and negative restraint of satiety.
Laboratory Animal Diets: A Critical Part of Your In Vivo Research
By Edward A Ulman, PH.D, Matthew R. Ricci, PH.D
Our diets can also change our metabolism as well the levels of circulating factors (hormones, lipids, etc.) which may be markers for disease risk. What is often overlooked is the fact that these concepts also apply to laboratory animals, making diet a critical part of study design.
Diet-Induced Metabolic Syndrome in Rodent Models
By Angela M. Gadja, MS, Michael A. Pellizzon, PH.D, Matthew R. Ricci, PH.D, Edward A Ulman, PH.D
A discussion of how diets made from purified ingredients influence the phenotypes of the MS in commonly used rodent models.
One Frog, Two Fish, Red Leg, Few Fish: Stress in the Aquatic Animal's Ecosystem
By Emily Cassidy, BS, RVT, LATG
“I don’t know what happened! Yesterday, this (insert your choice: frog, fish, xenole, lobster, sea urchin, etc.) looked fine. I walked in this morning and it was dead!”
Aquatic Standard Operating Procedures: Obstacles and Implementation
By Joe Sillitti
A Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) can be defined as established procedures to be followed for a specific task(s). An SOP should provide guidelines on what to do, when to do it, and who should do it.
