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Capacitive Sensing for Non-Invasive Breathing and Heart Monitoring in Non-Restrained, Non-Sedated Laboratory Mice
Animal testing plays a vital role in biomedical research. Stress reduction is important for improving research results and increasing the welfare and the quality of life of laboratory animals. To estimate stress we believe it is of great importance to develop non-invasive techniques for monitoring p...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4970099/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27399713 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s16071052 |
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author | González-Sánchez, Carlos Fraile, Juan-Carlos Pérez-Turiel, Javier Damm, Ellen Schneider, Jochen G. Zimmermann, Heiko Schmitt, Daniel Ihmig, Frank R. |
author_facet | González-Sánchez, Carlos Fraile, Juan-Carlos Pérez-Turiel, Javier Damm, Ellen Schneider, Jochen G. Zimmermann, Heiko Schmitt, Daniel Ihmig, Frank R. |
author_sort | González-Sánchez, Carlos |
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description | Animal testing plays a vital role in biomedical research. Stress reduction is important for improving research results and increasing the welfare and the quality of life of laboratory animals. To estimate stress we believe it is of great importance to develop non-invasive techniques for monitoring physiological signals during the transport of laboratory animals, thereby allowing the gathering of information on the transport conditions, and, eventually, the improvement of these conditions. Here, we study the suitability of commercially available electric potential integrated circuit (EPIC) sensors, using both contact and contactless techniques, for monitoring the heart rate and breathing rate of non-restrained, non-sedated laboratory mice. The design has been tested under different scenarios with the aim of checking the plausibility of performing contactless capture of mouse heart activity (ideally with an electrocardiogram). First experimental results are shown. |
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spelling | pubmed-49700992016-08-04 Capacitive Sensing for Non-Invasive Breathing and Heart Monitoring in Non-Restrained, Non-Sedated Laboratory Mice González-Sánchez, Carlos Fraile, Juan-Carlos Pérez-Turiel, Javier Damm, Ellen Schneider, Jochen G. Zimmermann, Heiko Schmitt, Daniel Ihmig, Frank R. Sensors (Basel) Article Animal testing plays a vital role in biomedical research. Stress reduction is important for improving research results and increasing the welfare and the quality of life of laboratory animals. To estimate stress we believe it is of great importance to develop non-invasive techniques for monitoring physiological signals during the transport of laboratory animals, thereby allowing the gathering of information on the transport conditions, and, eventually, the improvement of these conditions. Here, we study the suitability of commercially available electric potential integrated circuit (EPIC) sensors, using both contact and contactless techniques, for monitoring the heart rate and breathing rate of non-restrained, non-sedated laboratory mice. The design has been tested under different scenarios with the aim of checking the plausibility of performing contactless capture of mouse heart activity (ideally with an electrocardiogram). First experimental results are shown. MDPI 2016-07-07 /pmc/articles/PMC4970099/ /pubmed/27399713 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s16071052 Text en © 2016 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article González-Sánchez, Carlos Fraile, Juan-Carlos Pérez-Turiel, Javier Damm, Ellen Schneider, Jochen G. Zimmermann, Heiko Schmitt, Daniel Ihmig, Frank R. Capacitive Sensing for Non-Invasive Breathing and Heart Monitoring in Non-Restrained, Non-Sedated Laboratory Mice |
title | Capacitive Sensing for Non-Invasive Breathing and Heart Monitoring in Non-Restrained, Non-Sedated Laboratory Mice |
title_full | Capacitive Sensing for Non-Invasive Breathing and Heart Monitoring in Non-Restrained, Non-Sedated Laboratory Mice |
title_fullStr | Capacitive Sensing for Non-Invasive Breathing and Heart Monitoring in Non-Restrained, Non-Sedated Laboratory Mice |
title_full_unstemmed | Capacitive Sensing for Non-Invasive Breathing and Heart Monitoring in Non-Restrained, Non-Sedated Laboratory Mice |
title_short | Capacitive Sensing for Non-Invasive Breathing and Heart Monitoring in Non-Restrained, Non-Sedated Laboratory Mice |
title_sort | capacitive sensing for non-invasive breathing and heart monitoring in non-restrained, non-sedated laboratory mice |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4970099/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27399713 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s16071052 |
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