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An interesting Webinar entitled “Case Studies in Home Cage Monitoring: Rodent Behaviour, Circadian Biology and Animal Welfare” will be presented by Inside Scientific Platform and will focus the attention on home cage monitoring.

The presenters will show how  Automated home cage behavioural monitoring is receiving increasing attention from the scientific community because of its benefits with regards to translational research, data replicability and animal welfare.

In this webinar, Joanna Moore (GSK) and Kenneth Dyar (Helmholtz Diabetes Center) will discuss how home cage monitoring can be used to reduce animal stress, optimize methodology and guide physiology and animal behaviour research.

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The presenters,  Opinion Leaders in the Research Community will:

• show how Circadian clocks are fundamental determinants of physiology, behaviour and health. For skeletal muscle, the circadian clock promotes insulin sensitivity and orchestrates rhythms of glucose, lipid, and amino acid metabolism. Physical activity synchronizes circadian clocks by altering body temperature and through distribution of various hormones and metabolites. Research suggests that misalignment of the ‘muscle clock’ plays an important pathophysiological role in metabolic disease.
• discuss the use of home cage activity monitoring to evaluate the impact on the welfare of mice and consequently optimize the methodology to mitigate stress.
• will highlight some examples of how the DVC system can be used for locomotor activity monitoring in order to evaluate circadian alignment before, during or after various dietary and pharmacological interventions.

Key topics of the webinar will include:

• Using home cage activity as a readout for animal welfare
• Using locomotor activity to optimize methodology and validate study design in real-time
• Pre-study screening of cohorts for outliers

Exploit the opportunity to discuss with presenters!
The webinar will be “on line” on Thursday September 24th , at 12:00PM EDT | 6:00PM CEST

If you do not have time, no problem,  you can follow the webinar off line: it will stay on the Inside Platform till the end of the year.  

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