Current Standard of Care and Technologies: Rodents

Abstract

contend with. And as we discovered during the transgenic boom in rodents, there are clinical and management issues associated with these models. Nanoparticle research is just beginning to take hold in many facets of biomedical research, and how these particles react and interact in the body may create challenges in how we care for these animals. A recent study demonstrated how gadolinium nanoparticles helped to identify metastasis in a rabbit VX2 tumor model well before the lesions could be seen using other imaging techniques. And finally, computer-based surgical procedures, ro­ botics, and remotely controlled devices are being devel­ oped, and studies and individuals doing telepresence surgical procedures may have to be addressed in the future. Surgeons will have the ability to visualize the operating room, patient, surgical site, and other areas of the room us­ ing remote mobile camera systems placed in the OR, and to direct other physicians in the room as well as operate and control devices and instruments from outside the room, from a different building, from a different region, or even from a different country.