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We will be discussing how to refine dosing, sampling, and catheter care at FELASA 2025
Posted on 5/29/2025 by Nicole Navratil
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We are thrilled to have Candace Rhode Johnson join our partner UNO Life Science Solutions at the 16th FELASA Congress, where she will be participating in the workshop “Optimizing chronic infusion and sampling studies: from Surgery to Study Design” presenting on post-surgical catheter care and study design when using catheterized animals for infusion and automated sampling.
Candace will also be joining UNO in the Exhibit Hall to discuss the value our Culex NxT and Culex L Automated Blood Sampling Systems, and how they can be combined with the Raturn Movement Response Caging Systems, the Empis Automated Infusion System, as well as other systems such as telemetry and Open Flow Microperfusion to gather more data from a single animal, which helps refine study procedures and reduce animal numbers, with increasing study efficiency and data quality.
Meeting Details:
16th FELASA Congress
June 2-5, 2025
Athens Greece
felasa2025.eu
Workshop Details:
Monday June 2, 2025
1:15-2:15pm EEST
MC2 Conference Room
Optimizing Chronic Infusion and Sampling Studies: From Surgery to Study Design
Description: There are many protocols that require the use of catheterized animals. And whether the study is with rodents or with large animals, there are a wide array of methodologies that are used from person to person and from lab to lab. Unlike some other areas of research, infusion and sampling tends to stay out of the spotlight. It is unclear whether this is because there isn’t a specific forum for sharing best practices or whether the work itself isn’t considered worthy of notice. No matter the reason, the lack of discussion and sharing of best practices results in varying degrees of success and failure – which impacts reproducibility, reduction, and refinement. In this session, we cover best practices that will increase success and reproducibility, and decrease failure and animal use; from surgery, to post-operative care, to blood collection on-study, we'll identify tips and tricks to help improve study outcomes. Refining these techniques can result in healthier animals and more reliable data so that you are ultimately able to reduce the number of animals needed for each study.
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