The proper surgical techniques represent a key opportunity to improve the welfare of laboratory rodents, while meeting legal and ethical obligations. Use of inappropriate or poor surgical technique ...

A new paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that in order for the brain to recover consciousness after anesthesia, it must “reboot.” To make the discovery, ...

The last few years have led to great progress in Chile in terms of laboratory animal care and use. There are new legal mandates to protect laboratory animals, and funding agencies now require all ...

Researchers have used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to study the precise spatial distribution of synchronously working brain regions in anesthetized humans, long-tailed macaques, common ...

Scientists have reviewed scientific studies on the potentially adverse effects of exposing developing brains to general anesthesia. The head of the CU School of Medicine Department of Anesthesiology ...