Design of a metabolic cage for infant rats.
A glass metabolic cage was designed for studies involving newborn rats and small animals up to about 15 g. The metabolic chamber is a jacketed tube, open on both ends and closed with 0-ring clamps. Water is circulated around the cage to maintain a constant and physiologic chamber temperature. Information about the metabolic pathway of nutrients and drugs can thus be studied, and the effects of drugs on metabolism of substrates to CO2 can also be assessed in the newborn animal.
D000409:Alanine / Q000378:metabolism; D000818:Animals; D000831:Animals, Newborn / Q000378:metabolism*; D002245:Carbon Dioxide / Q000378:metabolism; D002250:Carbon Radioisotopes; D006799:Housing, Animal; D007930:Leucine / Q000378:metabolism; D051381:Rats / Q000378:metabolism*
D002250:Carbon Radioisotopes; D002245:Carbon Dioxide; D007930:Leucine; D000409:Alanine