The early life environment can be crucial in influencing the development of an animal's long-term physiology. There is now much evidence to suggest that perinatal challenges to an animal's immune system will result in changes in adult rat behavior, physiology, and molecular pathways following a single inflammatory event during development caused by the bacterial endotoxin lipopolysaccharide (LP...

The 2004 APS Position Statement on the Use of Animals in Teaching evolved following more than two years of discussions within the Council, the Animal Care and Experimentation Committee, the Education Committee, and the Editorial Board of the journal, Advances in Physiology Education. Position statements are, by definition, brief, and typically do not capture the detailed analysis and discussion...

3 Running head: inhibition of locust visual interneurons 4 5 Keram Pfeiffer, Mario Negrello and Uwe Homberg 6 7 8 9 10 Department of Biology, Animal Physiology, University of Marburg, 35032 Marburg, 11 Germany 12 Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, 7542, Onna, Onna-Son, Kunigami,Okinawa 13 904-0411, Japan 14 15 16 17 18 *Correspondence to: Uwe Homberg, Department of Biology, Animal Phy...

in this paper, a general introduction is given, presenting the overactive bladder syndrome (oab) and its impact on the quality of life and economical burden in patients affected. moreover, the anatomy, physiology and histology of the lower urinary tract are discussed, followed by a brief overview on the possible role of prostaglandin (pg) and phosphodiesterase type 5 (pde5) in the urinary bladd...

Nonhuman animal ("animal") experimentation is typically defended by arguments that it is reliable, that animals provide sufficiently good models of human biology and diseases to yield relevant information, and that, consequently, its use provides major human health benefits. I demonstrate that a growing body of scientific literature critically assessing the validity of animal experimentation ge...

On-animal sensors are revolutionising livestock farming by automating individual animal monitoring. Rumination is closely linked to cow health and physiology a perfect candidate for monitoring using on-animal sensors. The purpose of the current study was determine if tri-axial accelerometer ear-tag could be used detect rumination behaviour in eight multiparous Angus crossbreed cows housed semi-...

The use of animals in research continues to be a divisive issue for the animal-rights movement and the biomedical community. Animal-rights activists are adept at working with the media and in politics to advance their viewpoint. Although researchers have begun to explain their position, there remains a strong nt%d to publicize the human benefit derived from animal experimentation. The primary n...