Establishment of an operating room committee and a training program to improve aseptic techniques for rodent and large animal surgery.

Investigators of our research facility generally accept the concept of asepsis as an important component of adequate surgical care for animals. However, they experience difficulties putting it into practice, especially in the case of rodents. The reasons for this are inconvenience, cost, and lack of training.

Sensory perception and neuroanatomical structures in normal and grafted skin of burn survivors.

Background: This study compared the neural structures found in grafted skin of burn survivors with neural structures found in site-matched normal skin and correlated these structures with psychophysical measures of sensation.

Methods: Fifteen skin-grafted male burn survivors (47.7+/-10.