This official's main tasks are to reach out to the members and possible candidate members among the veterinarians professionally involved
with laboratory animal medicine and / or laboratory animal science.
This study,
done with laboratory animals, showed that diets low in fat and cholesterol could in fact aid with weight loss, improved metabolism and health.
Carrageenan is such an efficient inflammatory agent and carcinogen, it is widely
used with laboratory animals to study the molecular signals involved in cancer and anti-inflammatory drugs.
The American Association for Laboratory Animal Science (AALAS) is a large organization representing veterinarians, scientists, animal technicians, educators, and the allied trade groups
associated with laboratory animal medicine.
These results are «somewhat surprising,» the team writes in its report, because a number of
studies with laboratory animals and captive primates have shown a clear relationship between stress levels — as measured especially by fecal glucocorticoid concentrations — and immune suppression.
An assessment from the agency, issued in 2008, references only a couple of studies that cover inhalation exposures —
all with laboratory animals rather than people.
A few years ago, the sudden rise in anecdotal reports of these drugs» dangerous effects prompted Taffe and his TSRI colleague, chemist Associate Professor Tobin J. Dickerson, to set up studies
with laboratory animals.