Medical Interventions in Laboratory Animals
A special issue of Veterinary Sciences (ISSN 2306-7381).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2025 | Viewed by 593
Special Issue Editors
Interests: veterinary; infectious diseases; medicine
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: veterinary medicine; nonhuman primate care; animal welfare and behavior; lab animal science; diseases of laboratory animals
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
“We don't have to change what works” is a common phrase that is used worldwide, including by dedicated laboratory animal specialists. In reality, there are still so many opportunities for the refinement of medical interventions, applied tasks, and tests, such as anesthetic procedures, forced swim tests, open-field tasks, euthanasia, and maintaining one’s body temperature during anesthesia. As all drugs are administrated off-label, the refinement of their dosage, routes of administration, and frequency is an easy-to-think-of area of improvement that would not only help the one administering the injections but also the animals being injected. Examples of this are the use of long-acting antibiotics, analgesics, or NSAIDs. However, we often fear change because the outcomes are unknown, hence the need to help each other by publishing our findings.
This Special Issue addresses the need to strengthen the flow and exchange of information between veterinary sciences through the publication of new or refined medical interventions, applied tasks, and tests for laboratory animals. This Special Issue will stimulate collaboration between the people involved in taking care of laboratory animals.
Dr. Jaco Bakker
Dr. Melissa De la Garza
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- refinment
- laboratory animals
- medical interventions
- surgery
- medicine
- behavioral tests
- wellbeing
- severity assessment
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