Physical activity has multiple beneficial effects in the physiology and pathology of the organism. In particular, we and other groups have shown that running counteracts cancer cachexia in both humans and rodents. The latter are prone to exercise in wheel-equipped cages even at advanced stages of cachexia. However, when we wanted to replicate the experimental model routinely used at the University of Rome in a different laboratory (i.e. at Paris 6 University), we had to struggle with puzzling results due to unpredicted mouse behavior. Here we report the experience and offer the explanation underlying these apparently irreproducible results. The original data are currently used for teaching purposes in undergraduate student classes of biological sciences.

Of faeces and sweat. How much a mouse is willing to run: having a hard time measuring spontaneous physical activity in different mouse sub-strains / Coletti, Dario; Adamo, Sergio; Moresi, Viviana. - In: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF TRANSLATIONAL MYOLOGY. - ISSN 2037-7460. - ELETTRONICO. - 27:1(2017), pp. 67-70. [10.4081/ejtm.2017.6483]

Of faeces and sweat. How much a mouse is willing to run: having a hard time measuring spontaneous physical activity in different mouse sub-strains

Dario Coletti
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Sergio Adamo;Viviana Moresi
2017

Abstract

Physical activity has multiple beneficial effects in the physiology and pathology of the organism. In particular, we and other groups have shown that running counteracts cancer cachexia in both humans and rodents. The latter are prone to exercise in wheel-equipped cages even at advanced stages of cachexia. However, when we wanted to replicate the experimental model routinely used at the University of Rome in a different laboratory (i.e. at Paris 6 University), we had to struggle with puzzling results due to unpredicted mouse behavior. Here we report the experience and offer the explanation underlying these apparently irreproducible results. The original data are currently used for teaching purposes in undergraduate student classes of biological sciences.
2017
BALB/c mice; murine sub-strains; inbred mouse strains; running behavior; endurance exercise; cancer; cachexia
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Of faeces and sweat. How much a mouse is willing to run: having a hard time measuring spontaneous physical activity in different mouse sub-strains / Coletti, Dario; Adamo, Sergio; Moresi, Viviana. - In: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF TRANSLATIONAL MYOLOGY. - ISSN 2037-7460. - ELETTRONICO. - 27:1(2017), pp. 67-70. [10.4081/ejtm.2017.6483]
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