Volume 60 – issue 1

Sixty Years of Laboratory Animals
Jan-Bas Prins
pp. 9

Delivering on the promise of automated laboratory animal welfare monitoring: Data, technology and validity
Anna S. Olsson
pp.11

Assessing laboratory animal welfare: the crucial importance of construct validity
Georgia Mason
pp. 13

Beyond single metrics: Multi-parameter home-cage monitoring improves welfare assessment
Steven R Talbot, Rene H Tolba and Andre Bleich
pp. 20

Challenges and expectations on the use of automated home cage monitoring for advancing laboratory animal care and welfare
Jordi L Tremoleda, Aurora Bronstad, Heidrun Potschka, Petra Seebeck, Oliver Stiedl , Vootele Voikar and Sara Wells; TEATIME Animal Welfare Subgroup
pp. 25

FELASA recommendations for continuing professional development for professionals involved in animal research
Magda Joao Castelhano-Carlos, Marcel Gyger, Chris Van Ginneken, Mats SjOquist, Philippe Bugnon and Ana Isabel Santos
pp. 31

Sex-specific histoarchitecture and functional correlation of the rat thyroid gland
Ivan Milošević, Anja Nikolić, Emilija Nićković, Anita Radovanović, Bogomir Bolka Prokić, Jelena Jugović, Đurđica Marić, Aleksandra Buha Đorđević and Tijana Lužajić Božinovski
pp. 42

Shelved cages impact affective behavior in Sprague Dawley rats – implications for animal welfare
Logan J Bigelow, Emily K Pope, Clare PL Lee, Veronica K Sohasky, Sarah K MacLeod and Paul B Bernard
pp. 53

Tembleque (SDtq) rat: A new model of leukodystrophy associated with hypomyelination and impaired oligodendrocyte maturation
Martin Breijo, Florencia Fontes, Mariela Santos, Laura Martinez Palma, Sergio Rocha, Patricia Genovesse, Bin Liu, David Aghado, Carlos Perez and Fernando Benavides
pp. 63

Clinical evaluation of intranasal midazolam and alfaxalone for induction of anaesthesia in rabbits
Jennifer Hiekel, Peter WM Kronen and Karina Klein
pp. 75

Advancing ethical standards in Göttingen Minipigs studies: The feasibility and reliability of Vascular Access Buttons™
Melanie Reijnaers, Joelle van Dijk, Gabry Warmels, Adrian Zeltner and Judith Latour
pp. 85

Isolated perfusion of pig kidney segments to study renal function: a translational model for human kidneys
Thomas C Beham and Frank Schweda
pp. 96

One size does not fit all: Guidelines for designing a score sheet for animal experiments – eight essential steps
Michaela Thallmair, Maria J Duque-Correa, Maike Heimann and Philippe Bugnon
pp. 110

The 2nd Central and Eastern European Laboratory Animal Science Congress is coming — a prestigious and unique event jointly organised by 10 FELASA member associations, together with ESLAV and ECLAM, which is still quite exceptional in our field
Jan Honetschlager
pp. 119