Volume 60 – issue 1
Sixty Years of Laboratory Animals
Jan-Bas Prins
pp. 9
Sixty Years of Laboratory Animals
Jan-Bas Prins
pp. 9
Delivering on the promise of automated laboratory animal welfare monitoring: Data, technology and validity
Anna S. Olsson
pp.11
Assessing laboratory animal welfare: the crucial importance of construct validity
Georgia Mason
pp. 13
Beyond single metrics: Multi-parameter home-cage monitoring improves welfare assessment
Steven R Talbot, Rene H Tolba and Andre Bleich
pp. 20
Challenges and expectations on the use of automated home cage monitoring for advancing laboratory animal care and welfare
Jordi L Tremoleda, Aurora Bronstad, Heidrun Potschka, Petra Seebeck, Oliver Stiedl , Vootele Voikar and Sara Wells; TEATIME Animal Welfare Subgroup
pp. 25
FELASA recommendations for continuing professional development for professionals involved in animal research
Magda Joao Castelhano-Carlos, Marcel Gyger, Chris Van Ginneken, Mats SjOquist, Philippe Bugnon and Ana Isabel Santos
pp. 31
Sex-specific histoarchitecture and functional correlation of the rat thyroid gland
Ivan Milošević, Anja Nikolić, Emilija Nićković, Anita Radovanović, Bogomir Bolka Prokić, Jelena Jugović, Đurđica Marić, Aleksandra Buha Đorđević and Tijana Lužajić Božinovski
pp. 42
Shelved cages impact affective behavior in Sprague Dawley rats – implications for animal welfare
Logan J Bigelow, Emily K Pope, Clare PL Lee, Veronica K Sohasky, Sarah K MacLeod and Paul B Bernard
pp. 53
Tembleque (SDtq) rat: A new model of leukodystrophy associated with hypomyelination and impaired oligodendrocyte maturation
Martin Breijo, Florencia Fontes, Mariela Santos, Laura Martinez Palma, Sergio Rocha, Patricia Genovesse, Bin Liu, David Aghado, Carlos Perez and Fernando Benavides
pp. 63
Clinical evaluation of intranasal midazolam and alfaxalone for induction of anaesthesia in rabbits
Jennifer Hiekel, Peter WM Kronen and Karina Klein
pp. 75
Advancing ethical standards in Göttingen Minipigs studies: The feasibility and reliability of Vascular Access Buttons™
Melanie Reijnaers, Joelle van Dijk, Gabry Warmels, Adrian Zeltner and Judith Latour
pp. 85
Isolated perfusion of pig kidney segments to study renal function: a translational model for human kidneys
Thomas C Beham and Frank Schweda
pp. 96
One size does not fit all: Guidelines for designing a score sheet for animal experiments – eight essential steps
Michaela Thallmair, Maria J Duque-Correa, Maike Heimann and Philippe Bugnon
pp. 110
The 2nd Central and Eastern European Laboratory Animal Science Congress is coming — a prestigious and unique event jointly organised by 10 FELASA member associations, together with ESLAV and ECLAM, which is still quite exceptional in our field
Jan Honetschlager
pp. 119
Volume 59 – issue 6
Introducing entrustable professional activities and competency-based development into workplace-based training within laboratory animal sciences
Ivo Tiebosch, Lucy Whitfield and Robert Favier
pp. 645
Introducing entrustable professional activities and competency-based development into workplace-based training within laboratory animal sciences
Ivo Tiebosch, Lucy Whitfield and Robert Favier
pp. 645
Welfare complications in the male BN/Crl and RjHan:SD rat streptozotocin-induced diabetes models
Anni Tenhunen, Satu Mering, Hanna-Marja Voipio, Heidi Isohookana, Niina Jääskeläinen, Otto Kalliokoski, Anna M Koponen, Birgitta Lappeteläinen, Päivi Partanen, Rubina Thapa, Leena Tähtivaara and Marc Cerrada Gimenez
pp. 652
A simple and rapid shaking-based assay to genotype live, early developmental stage zebrafish embryos
Rima Siauciuinate, Christelle Etard, Almut Koehler, Odelia Pisanty, Miriam Otto, Thomas Dickmeis, Olivier Kassel, Yoav Gothilf, Nicholas S Foulkes and Daniela Vallone
pp. 664
Antinociceptive and motor-blocking effects of epidurally administered diphenhydramine at different concentrations in conscious rabbits: a randomized–controlled trial
Navid Ziaei-Darounkolaei, Ismael Hernández-Ávalos, Vahid Vahedian, Majid Soleimannejad, Alireza Kaveh-Aski, Hossein Rezaei, Mohsen Keyhani and Bahador Barari
pp. 676
Conspecific images require longer visual processing than simple stimuli in healthy four-week old piglets
R Anna Oeur and Susan S Margulies
pp. 692
Cardiopulmonary, echodopplercardiographic and cardiac output effects of isoflurane anaesthesia in male sheep
Rauane Sousa de Moura, Beatriz Kawamura Rodrigues, Daianny Pires de Freitas, Jéssica Rocha Gonçalves, Sandro de Melo Braga, Rosângela de Oliveira Alves Carvalho and Leandro Guimarães Franco
pp. 702
Giving less power to statistical power
Megan D. Higgs and Valentin Amrhein
pp. 714
Advancing animal welfare: A natural mating protocol for Xenopus laevis
Elena Menegola, Francesca Di Renzo, Renato Bacchetta and Maria Battistoni
pp. 722
Volume 59 – issue 5
A scoping review on reporting of methods in DSS colitis mouse models
Michaela Thallmair and Paulin Jirkof
pp. 541
A scoping review on reporting of methods in DSS colitis mouse models
Michaela Thallmair and Paulin Jirkof
pp. 541
The (re)turn of the 3Rs: an inquiry into the normative nature of Russell and Burch’st principles of humane experimental technique – their misunderstanding, reform and implementation through an ethics tool
Herwig Grimm and Marc Dusseldorp
pp. 556
Evaluating cervical dislocation methods, without using tension on the tail, for humanely killing adult laboratory mice
Antony Davidge, Flaviu Bulat and Aude Vernet
pp. 570
Sex and strain differences in the micropipette-guided drug administration (MDA) method in mice
Sarah Steiner, Olga Krzyzaniak, Frida A. M. Nilsson, Macsmeila Dietrich, Laura Kämpfen, Pal Johansen, Paulin Jirkof and Urs Meyer
pp. 578
A customised combination of environmental enrichment reduces aggression in CD-1 male mice
Amy Veness, Christophe Galichet, Sian Murphy, Tina O’Mahony, Yoh Isogai and Eleni M Amaniti
pp. 588
A new method to replace oral gavage for the study of Cryptosporidium infection in mice
Fernanda G Fumuso, Christine E Salomon and Roberta M O’Connor
pp. 593
Methods of humane killing of laboratory fish: FELASA Working Group recommendations
Jean-Philippe Mocho, Juan Ramos Blasco, Pia Rengtved Lundegaard, Robin McKimm, Vlasta JenČiČ and Kristine von Krogh
pp. 599
Teaching experimental design: outputs from the FELASA Working Group
Derek Fry, Manuel Berdoy, Monica Forni, Carlos Oscar S. Sorzano, Thomas Steckler and Nuno H. Franco
pp. 614
