A new book offers a valuable discussion of the double bind in which many researchers and lab technicians find themselves: having to care for animals who will then be killed.

Finally, the tellurium meshes, especially the infrared vision capability they offered, were tested on healthy macaques, an ...

The rat metabolic cage (MetKit) from BASi (West Lafayette, IN) features a wire floor and funnel system for separation, a hinged door for accessing the animal and externally mounted feed and water ...

Previous rodent studies did not use a 5:2 feeding pattern and thus are not directly comparable to the present study. Those studies used more frequent DR periods, with rodents subjected to daily CR ...

Decision letter after peer review: Thank you for submitting your article "Vitamin B2 enables peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor a regulation of fasting glucose availability" for consideration ...

A pair brown and beige hamsters eat some seeds Olga Skred/Getty Images. Simon Hein notes how the small rodents are "bigger than many think." He said: "A common hamster is more than twice as big as ...

The body weight and food intake of each rat were recorded weekly. Metabolic cages were used for collection of 24-h urine sample of each rat at the end of 10-week period experiment. The urine samples ...

She shot across the cage, snagged the rat with her upper teeth and wrapped her thick midriff around her victim. ... When mammals feed, their metabolic rate goes up between 25 and 50 percent.