Body temperature measurement in mice during acute illness: implantable temperature transponder versus surface infrared thermometry

• Published in: Scientific reports Vol. 8; no. 1; pp. 3526 - 10
• Main Authors: Mei, Jie, Riedel, Nico, Grittner, Ulrike, Endres, Matthias, Banneke, Stefanie, Emmrich, Julius Valentin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 23.02.2018; Nature Publishing Group; Nature Portfolio
• Subjects: 631/250/256/2516; 64/60; 692/308/1426; Body temperature; Endotoxins; Humanities and Social Sciences; Hypothermia; Laboratory animals; Learning algorithms; Lipopolysaccharides; multidisciplinary; Radio frequency identification; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Standardization; Surface temperature; Temperature effects; Temperature measurement; Transponders

Body temperature is a valuable parameter in determining the wellbeing of laboratory animals. However, using body temperature to refine humane endpoints during acute illness generally lacks comprehensiveness and exposes to inter-observer bias. Here we compared two methods to assess body temperature i...