In recent years, civil society has begun to waver in its trust in the basic principle of ensuring reproducibility in scientific research. In particular, "standardization of techniques" has become an issue in many fields related to laboratory animals and animal experiments, which are premised on the existence of animal lives that are injured, pained, and sacrificed for the sake of scientific research. We, laboratory animal technicians, are always the closest to laboratory animals.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHepatitis E virus (HEV) is known to cause zoonotic infections from pigs, wild boars and deer. Domestic pigs have been used as an experimental animal model in medical research and training; however, the risks of HEV infection from pigs during animal experiments are largely unknown. Here, we retrospectively investigated the seroprevalence and detection rates of viral RNA in 73 domestic pigs (average 34.
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