LABORATORY ANIMAL SCIENCE
Vol 49, No 3 June 1999



Correspondence ..........................................................................229

Editorial

International Standards for
Rodent Quality............................................................................... 230
Robert O, Jacoby and Felix R. Hornberger

Meeting Report

1998 Annual Meeting of the American College
ofVeterinaryAnesthesiologists .......................................................231
John W. Ludders

REPORTS
Laboratory Animal Diseases

Spontaneous Ophthairnic Lesions in Young
Swiss Mice ................................................................................... 232
Marie-Francoise Hubert, Genevieve Gerin, and
Genevieve Durand-Cavagna


Neuroendocrine (ECL Cell) Differentiation of
Spontaneous Gastric Carcinomas of Cotton
Rats (Sigmodonhispidus) ...........................................................241
Helge L. Waldum, Hege Rorvik, Sture Falkmer, and
Shiro Kawase

Effect of Respiratory Tract Disease on
Pharmacokinetics of Tilmicosin
in Rats ......................................................................................248
Sanja Modric, A. l. Webb, and Maureen Davidson



Animal Models

Characterization of the Interaction of
Escherichia coU Heat-Stable Enterotoxin (STa)
with lts Intestinal Putative Receptor
in Various Age Groups of Mice, Using Flow
Cytometry andBindingAssays ................................................254
Ahmad M. Al-Majali, J. Paul Robinson, Elikplimi K. Asem,
Carlton Lamar, M. James Freeman, and A. Mahdi Saeed


Radiographic, Histologie, and Cytologic
Lesions Associated with Mutations in
the Fitness( 4226SB) Locus ofMice .....................................260
A. Eric Schnitze, Michael F. McEntee, Gregory B. Daniel,
and Dabney K. Johnson

The FLS Mouse: A New Inbred Strain with
Spontaneous Fatty Liver ...................................................... 269
Masahiko Soga, Yoshio Kishimoto, Junko Kawaguchi,
Yukiko Nakai, Yoshihiro Kawarnura, Shuichiro Inagaki,
Kenji Katoh, Tadao Oohara, Susumu Makino, and
ltsuki Oshima

Statistical Method for Characterization of
Hypertrophie Cardiomyopathy by Use of
Morphologie and Pathologie Measurements
in Pigs (Sus scrofa domestica) .............................................. 276
San-Yuan Huang, Hui-Liang Tsou, Yung-Tsung Chiu,
Jong-Jeng Wu, Jyh-Hung Lin, Ping-Cheng Yang, and
Si-Kwang Liu

Model of Staphylococcus aureus Central
Venous Catheter-Associated Infection
in Rats .....................................................................................283
Joseph S. Ulphani and Mark E. Rupp

Biolögy

Behavioral Effects of lvennectin
in Mice ..................................................................................288
Judith A. Davis, Richard Payior, Michael P. McDonald,
Megan Libbey, Amy Ligler, Katherine Bryant, and
Jacqueline N. Crawley

Light-Emitting Diodes and Cool White
Fluorescent Light Similarly Suppress
Pineal Gland Melatonin and Maintain
Retinal Function and Morphology
in the Rat .................................................................................297
Darren S. Heeke, Mary P. White, Gary D. Mele,
John P. Hanifin, George C. Brainard, Mark D. Rollag,
Charles M. Winget, and Daniel C. Holley
NOTES

Ventricular Pressure and Dimension
Measurements in Mice ................................................................... 305
Michael l. Miyamoto, Catherme S. Kim, J. Luis Guerrero,
Anthony Rosenzweig, Judith K. Gwathmey, and
RogerJ. Hajjar

Natural and Experimentally Induced
Infection of Syrian Hamsters with a
NewIyRecognizedParvovirus ............................................................308
David G. Besselsen, Susan V. Gibson,
Cynthia L. Besch-Williford, GregoryA. Purdy,
Rick L. Knowles, Joseph E. Wagner, David J. Pintel,
.CraigL. Franklin, Reuel R. Hook, Jr., and Leia K. Riley

Identification of Pseudocysts of
Tritrichomonas muris in Armenian
Hamsters and Their Transmission
toMice ..................................................................................................313
Neil S. Lipman, Nina Lampen, and Hai T. Nguyen

Carbon Dioxide-lnduced Anesthesia Has No
Effect on Brain Biogenic Amine
Concentrations in Mice ..................................................................... 316
Dorothy Mae Jones, Jill Arters, and
Joanne Berger-Sweeney


Body Condition Scoring: A Rapid and
Accurate Method for Assessing Health
Status in Mice ...................................................................................319
Mollie H. Ullman-Cullere and Charmaine J. Foltz

Spontaneous Low-Virulence Mouse Hepatitis
Virus Infection in Severe Combined
Immunodeficiency Mice................................................................... 324
Yang-Kyu Choi, Jae-Yoon Choi, Hea-SungJeon,
Young-Suk Won, Chul-Ho Lee, Won-Kee Yoon,
Goo-Teak Oh, and Byung-Hwa Hyun

Percutaneous Intravenous Injection in
Neonatal Mice................................................................................ 328
Mark S. Sands and Jane E. Barker

Rat Model for Dual Opportunistic Pathogen
Prophylaxis: Cryptosporidium parvurn and
Pneumocystis carinii ......................................................................331
Helieh S. Oz, Walter T. Hughes, and Jerold E. Rehg

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Laboratory Animal Science

Volume 49, Number 2 , April 1999

Correspondence .................................................. 132

Editorial
Engaging Mouse Genes in Motion ................. 134
Robert 0. Jacoby

Meeting Report
2nd International Conference on
Transgenic Animals (ICTA)
in Beijing, China ................................................ 135
Manfred Baetscher

SPECIAL TOPIC OVERVIEW
Interpretation of Phenotype in
Genetically Engineered Mice .......................... 137
Thomas Doetschman

REPORTS
Laboratory Animal Diseases
B-Virus Specific-Pathogen-Free Breeding
Colonies of Macaques (Macaca mulatta):
Retrospective Study of

Seven Years of Testing ...................................... 144
Julia K. Hilliard and John A. Ward

Selection of the Most Efficacious of
Twenty-Two Inactivated Sendai Virus Nasal
Vaccines by Determination of the
Protection Index in Mice ................................. 149
T. Miyamae


Cardiovascular Pathology Possibly Associated
with Ketamine/Xylazine Anesthesia in
Dutch Belted Rabbits ....................................... 153

Robert P. Marini, Xiantang Li, Neil K. Harpster, and
Charles Dangler

Animal Models

Animal Models of Spinal Cord
Contusion Injuries ............................................ 161
alat Khan, Robert M. Havey, Scott T. Sayers,
Avinash Patwardhan, and William W. King

Auditory Brainstem Responses in
Golden Syrian Hamsters
(Mesocricetus auratus) Affected
with the Wh Gene .............................................. 173
Geoffrey K. P. Amedofu, Kamakshi V. Gopal,
James H. Asher, Jr., MassumAhmadizadeh, and
Ernest J. Moore


In Vivo Properties of Three Human
HER2/nc^-Expressing Murine Cell Lines
in Immunocompetent Mice .............................. 179
Manuel L. Penichet) Pia-Maria Challita, Seung-Uon Shin,
Sharon L. Sampogna, Joseph D. Rosenblatt, and
Sherie L. Morrison


Rabbit Intestinal Xenograft Model
for Human Encephalitozoon
Infections in Mice .............................................. 189
Katherine Wasson, Karen Snowden, Elizabeth Didier,
John Shadduck, and Howard Gelberg


Rhesus Monkey (Macaca mulatta)
Model of Helicobacter pylori:
Noninvasive Detection and Derivation of
Specific-Pathogen-Free Monkeys .................. 197
Jay V. Solnick, Don R. Canfield, Shufang Yang, and
Julie Parsonnet

Biology

Power Spectral Analysis of Heart Rate
Variability for Assessment of Diurnal
Variation ofAutonomic Nervous Activity
in Miniature Swine ............................................ 202
Masayoshi Kuwahara, Atsushi Suzuki, Hideki Tsutsumi,
Manabli Tanigawa, Hirokazu Tsubone, and
Shigeru Sugano


NOTES

Corynebacterium bovis Infection in
Immunocompetent Hirsute Mice ................... 209
Alberto Gobbi, Luca Crippa, and Eugenio Scanziani

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