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The Benefits of Monitoring Mouse Body Temperature

Kent Scientific2025-10-03T14:52:39+00:00 Researchers have been exploring the link between anesthesia and body temperature since the early 1930s. One study (1942) into the body temperature of mice during anesthesia posited a connection between reduced anesthetic efficacy and a drop in core temperature. Yet the importance of body temperature...

New Research with Animals Could Shed Light on the Human Brain

Kent Scientific2025-10-03T14:52:39+00:00 Mouse brains have obvious differences from the human brain, but have still proven to be important models for studying many aspects of the human brain. New mouse studies have given researchers insight into a number of brain functions that could have implications for humans, including...

Understanding Endotracheal Intubation of Small Animals

Kent Scientific2025-10-03T14:52:39+00:00 Endotracheal intubation (EI) is a core component of in vivo studies on small animals . An endotracheal tube inserted through the mouth provides a pathway for delivering inhalation anesthetic drugs, and helps the animal to maintain airway patency while anesthetized. Additionally, tracheal intubation enables ventilatory...

Using Sound to Reduce Pain and Other Advances in Pain Treatment

Kent Scientific2025-10-03T14:52:39+00:00 More than 50 million people in the United States are living with chronic pain—about 20% of American adults—according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.Treatment options range from massage and acupuncture to steroid injections and surgery, but no solution works for everyone because not...

Animal Research Leads to Potential New Treatments for Diabetes

Kent Scientific2025-10-03T14:52:54+00:00 More than 37 million people in the United States have diabetes, which is the seventh leading cause of death in the country and is associated with an increased risk of heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure, kidney damage, liver disease, and several types of cancer....

Pulse Oximetry Explained

Kent Scientific2025-10-03T14:52:55+00:00 With continuing advances in medical research, small animals such as rats, mice, and gerbils are being used as surgical models. Advanced monitoring devices have been developed to monitor subjects during surgery to improve surgical outcomes and consider increasing concern for humane practices. These devices monitor...

Research with Mice Yields Important Discoveries About Pregnancy, Birth, and Reproduction

Kent Scientific2025-10-03T14:52:55+00:00 Reproduction is life’s most basic function, and in some ways also its most mysterious. Researchers working with mice and rats have made several recent reproduction-related breakthroughs, including an in vivo cure for infertility in mice, creating rat sperm from stem cells, discovering that a previously...

Benefits of Far Infrared Animal Warming Pads

Kent Scientific2025-10-03T14:52:55+00:00 Animal warming pads are widely used by pet owners for heat therapy and to improve the general wellbeing of cats, dogs, and small animals at home. These same benefits of using warming pads for animals apply to clinical settings too. Far infrared animal warming pads...

Researchers Work to Solve the Puzzle of Autism

Kent Scientific2025-10-03T14:52:55+00:00 April is National Autism Awareness Month, and researchers worldwide are working to better understand this complex condition. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, autism spectrum disorder (ASD) affects one in 44 children in the U.S. and is about four times more common in...

Rodent Anesthesia Protocols: Maintaining the Right Concentration

Kent Scientific2025-10-03T14:52:55+00:00 Surgical procedures are governed by strict rigorous controls, but the specifics of anesthetic induction are surprisingly nebulous. There are three overarching classes of agent used to induce animal anesthesia: volatile substances; injectables like ketamine; and local anesthetics.  Animal research labs make routine use of inhalant anesthetics,...