Volume 59 – issue 1
Facility design and management: modern challenges and sustainability
Silvina L Diaz, Patrick Sharp and Xavier Warot
pp. 8
Facility design and management: modern challenges and sustainability
Silvina L Diaz, Patrick Sharp and Xavier Warot
pp. 8
Streamlining model organisms facilities operation: The benefits of a unified management structure
Manuel Rebelo, Joana Bom, Ana C Borges, Rute Marques, Marília Pereira, Ana S Leocádio, Liliana Vieira, Ana Ribeiro, Liliana Vale, Inês Santos, Sandra Crisóstomo, Vera Nunes, Maysa Franco, Adérito Vieira, Pedro Pinto, Ana R Machado and Jocelyne Demengeot
pp. 11
Development of a center for automated equipment processing to transform the research enterprise configuration
Philip J Richter Jr, Albert LeClair and Harry Lim
pp. 23
A communication pipeline for in vivo imaging core facilities
Vasileios Ntafis
pp. 34
Reusing zebrafish facility equipment: Planning, investment and what we have learned
Olga M Fernández-Rodriguez, Emilio Cortés, Pablo Pelegrín, Laura Maldonado, Jesus Fernández, Jose Penalver, Khrystyna Ostrovska, Maria T Fernández, Pablo Ramírez and Maria L Cayuela
pp. 40
Brakes and leverages for reducing the environmental impact of laboratory animal facilities: A case study at the Institut Pasteur
Marion Berard, Héléne da Conceição, Sébastien Bedu and Jean-Philippe Mocho
pp. 47
Murine astrovirus (MuAstV) infection in mouse facilities in Brazil: First South American report
Marcia S C Oliveira, Tatiana X Castro, Camila F Baez, Simone Ramos, Gabriel R Azevedo, Carolina M de Castro, Ana Clara SS de Paula, Laura MB Levy, Emanuelle da S do Nascimento and Rafael B Varella
pp. 58
Murine chapparvovirus (MuCPV)/mouse kidney parvovirus (MKPV) eradication by cross foster rederivation
Ibrahim Faseeh, Vatthana Vongphakham and Patrick Sharp
pp. 63
Moving from guideline recommendations to practical, reasonable proposals: Biosafety considerations, breeding performance and challenges during specific pathogen-free animal facility enlargement
Maschi Fabricio, Laborde Juan, Carriquiriborde Martín, Milocco Silvana, Almirón Johana, Resasco Agustina and Ayala Miguel
pp. 75
Single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) characterisation of mouse inbred strains bred at MRC-National Institute for Medical Research
José M Sánchez-Morgado
pp. 83
Management of zoonoses in research institutions – lessons learned from a Coxiella burnetii outbreak case
Pia KS Ostach, André Dülsner, Anne Keil andStefan Nagel-Riedasch
pp. 93
Facility design and management. Strategies for high level biocontainment
Mike Dennis, Michael Charlton, Samantha Elam and Sarah Wolfensohn
pp. 104
An innovative approach for health and safety training and occupational health program annual enrollment for laboratory animal care and use personnel
Scott J Patlovich, Robert J Emery, Kristin G King, Zackary B Becker, Rebecca B Kairis, Mary A Robinson, Joy M Harrison, George Delclos and William B Perkison
pp. 113
The use of performance-based outcomes in achieving better global harmonisation in the care and use of animals in research
Dewi K Rowlands and Javier Guillén
pp. 120
The FELASA 2025 Congress will take place in Athens, Greece, on 2–5 June 2025
Jean-Philippe Mocho
pp. 133
Volume 58 – issue 6
To our esteemed colleague J-P
Jordi Tremoleda, Paulin Jirkof, Annemarie Lang and José M Sanchez-Morgado
pp. 510
To our esteemed colleague J-P
Jordi Tremoleda, Paulin Jirkof, Annemarie Lang and José M Sanchez-Morgado
pp. 510
The culture of care to enhance laboratory animal personnel well-being: a scoping review
Heidi L Morahan, Shari Cohen, Lisa Bero and Kieron B Rooney
pp. 515
Animal models for preventing seroma after surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Steven E.M. Poos, Bob P. Hermans, Harry van Goor and Richard P.G. ten Broek
pp. 530
Comparison of two bedding types on the breeding fecundity of C57BL/6J mice
Jessica L. Pinckard, Lauren A. Gibson and Wendy R. Williams
pp. 545
The implementation of tunnel handling in a mouse breeding facility revealed strain-specific behavioural responses
Katharina Hohlbaum, Roswitha Merle, Ramona Warnke, Stefan Nagel-Riedasch, Christa Tho¨ne-Reineke and Kristina Ullmann
pp. 552
Establishment of reference intervals of haematology and biochemistry analytes in ICR mice of different ages
Suresh Patel, Satish Patel, Ashvin Kotadiya, Samir Patel, Bhavesh Shrimali, Tushar Patel, Harshida Trivedi, Vishal Patel, Jogeswar Mahapatra and Mukul Jain
pp. 565
Variability in rat weight gain during development
Pablo Vázquez-Borsetti
pp. 579
Non-invasive acquisition of vital data in anesthetized rats using laser and radar application
Toshiaki Kawabe, Shota Kita, Isao Ohmura, Ryuji Michino, Hidenori Watanabe, Guanghao Sun and Seiya Inoue
pp. 591
Pharmacokinetics of single dose levobupivacaine after peri-incisional subcutaneous infiltration in anaesthetized domestic pigs
Tilen Vake, Tomaž Snoj, Maja Čemažar, Urša Lampreht Tratar, Urban Stupan, Alenka Seliškar, Jan Plut, Tina Kosjek, Helena Plešnik and Marina Štukelj
pp. 602
Refining urine collection in mice: Development of an innovative urine collection device
Mélodie Douté, Céline Monzali, Antonino Nicoletti, Giuseppina Caligiuri and Marc Clement
pp. 612
Fin clipping does not increase opercular beat rate in tricaine-treated zebrafish
Martin D Burkhalter and Melanie Philipp
pp. 616
Spontaneous type II cell-derived bronchioloalveolar adenoma in a young ICR mouse
Minkyoung Sung, Soo-Eun Sung, Joo-Hee Choi, Yujeong Lee, Kyung-Ku Kang, SunHee Park, Duyeol Kim and Sijoon Lee
pp. 621
Guidance on the assessment of learning outcomes for those designing procedures and projects – Report of an ETPLAS Working Group
Ismene A Dontas, Derek J Fry, David I Lewis, Kenneth Applebee, Martje Fentener van Vlissingen, Katerina Marinou and Johannes Schenkel
pp. 626
GV-SOLAS celebrated its 60th birthday at the 2024 annual conference!
Sabine Bischoff and Bettina Kranzlin
pp. 640
Volume 58 – issue 5
Vacancy for EDITOR position to join the EIC team
Paulin Jirkof, Annemarie Lang, Jordi L. Tremoleda and José Sanchez Morgado
pp. 390
Vacancy for EDITOR position to join the EIC team
Paulin Jirkof, Annemarie Lang, Jordi L. Tremoleda and José Sanchez Morgado
pp. 390
Laboratory Animals presents Special Issue Biostatistics Notes
Romain-Daniel Gosselin and Penny S Reynolds
pp. 403
Study design: think ‘scientific value’ not ‘p-values’
Penny S Reynolds
pp. 404
Half the price, twice the gain: How to simultaneously decrease animal numbers and increase precision with good experimental design
Servan Luciano Grüninger and Florian Frommlet
pp. 411
Methods for applying blinding and randomisation in animal experiments
PS Verhave, R van Eenige and IACW Tiebosch
pp. 419
Treatment randomisation at animal or pen level?: Statistical analysis should follow the randomisation pattern!
Luc Duchateau, Robrecht Dockx, Klara Goethals, Matthijs Vynck, Frédéric Vangroenweghe and Christian Burvenich
pp. 427
Testing for normality: a user’s (cautionary) guide
Romain-Daniel Gosselin
pp. 433
Ditching the norm: Using alternative distributions for biological data analysis
Stanley E Lazic
pp. 438
Understanding p-values and significance
Naomi Altman and Martin Krzywinski
pp. 443
About statistical significance, and the lack thereof
Fulvio Magara and Benjamin Boury-Jamot
pp. 448
Depicting variability and uncertainty using intervals and error bars
Naomi Altman and Martin Krzywinski
pp. 453
Causal mediation analysis: How to avoid fooling yourself that X causes Y
Stanley E Lazic
pp. 458
Incorporating sources of correlation between outcomes: An introduction to mixed models
Limeng Liu and Ashley Petersen
pp. 463
Bayesian statistical concepts with examples from rodent toxicology studies
Gary J Larson and Keith R Shockley
pp. 470
How cage effects can hurt statistical analyses of completely randomized designs
Reid D. Landes
pp. 476
Preclinical pilot studies: Five common pitfalls and how to avoid them
Natasha A Karp, Alan Sharpe and Benjamin Phillips
pp. 481
Simulation methodologies to determine statistical power in laboratory animal research studies
Angela Jeffers, Kathryn Konrad, Gary Larson, Katherine Allen-Moyer, Helen Cunny and Keith Shockley
pp. 486
Heterogeneity of animal experiments and how to deal with it
Bernhard Voelkl and Hanno Wurbel
pp. 493
Our 61st Annual Meeting: An exciting programme is shaping up!
Jordi L. Tremoleda
pp. 499