SunBo Shim,
SeHyun Lee,
ChuelKyu Kim,
ByoungGuk Kim,
SeungWan Jee,
SuHae Lee,
JiSoon Sin, ChangJoon Bae,
Jong-Min Woo,
JungSik Cho,
EonPil Lee,
HaeWook Choi,
HongSung Kim,
JaeHo Lee,
YoungJin Jung,
ByungWook Cho,
KabRyong Chae,
DaeYoun Hwang
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ABSTRACT: Laboratory animals generally experience numerous unfamiliar environmental and psychological influences such as noises, temperatures, handling, shaking, and smells during the process of air transportation. To investigate whether stress induced by air transportation affects stress-related factors in animals, the levels of hormone and chaperone protein were measured in several tissues of F344 rats transported for 13 h and not transported. Herein, we conclude that the levels of corticosterone, HSP70, and GRP78 were significantly increased in the transported group compare to not transported group, but they were rapidly restored to the not transported group level after a recovery period of one week. However, the magnitude of induction and restoration levels of these factors varied depending on the tissue type. Thus, these results suggest that air transportation should be considered for the improvement of laboratory animal health and to reduce the incidence of laboratory animal stress.
Experimental Animals 02/2009; 58(1):11-7. · 0.92 Impact Factor
