Severity assessment using three common behavioral or locomotor tests after laparotomy in rats: a pilot study.
distress behavior
motor activity physiology
rat
severity assessment
surgical techniques
Journal
Laboratory animals
ISSN: 1758-1117
Titre abrégé: Lab Anim
Pays: England
ID NLM: 0112725
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Dec 2020
Dec 2020
Historique:
pubmed:
2
4
2020
medline:
29
6
2021
entrez:
2
4
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
The aim of this pilot study was to evaluate whether behavioral or locomotor tests (Open Field (OF), rotarod (RR), and CatWalk (CW)) can help assess the severity of laparotomy in rats.The new EU Directive (2010/63/EU) mandates severity assessment in experiments involving animals. However, validated and objective methods are needed to relate trial-specific monitoring results to the degree of distress caused to individual animals. Therefore, we focused on non-invasive or minimally invasive, simple, and convenient severity assessment methods in a surgical model.To evaluate surgical severity in this model, we compared moving velocity among three commonly used behavioral test methods (OF, RR, and CW) after midline laparotomy within postoperative 7 days.In this study, 30 adult male Wistar Han rats (
Identifiants
pubmed: 32228147
doi: 10.1177/0023677220911680
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
525-535Commentaires et corrections
Type : ErratumIn