Animal Experimentation
Subject
Subject Source: Medical Subject Headings
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Asphyxia Neonatorum; Experimental Study in the Guinea Pig, 1943
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Warning: this film includes footage of research animals; graphic content of surgical operations on live guinea pigs.A silent, color film detailing experiments on guinea pig fetuses in which they are deprived of oxygen, birthed, and resuscitated. Effects on the nervous system and learning ability are noted. Effects include: hemorrhage in thalamus, hemorrhage in fourth ventricle, hemorrhage in hippocampus, atrophy of cortex, and others.W.F. Windle and R.F. Becker,...
Dates:
1943
Contraction and Evacuation of the Gall Bladder in the Rabbit Following the Intravenous Injection of Cholecystokinin, 1938
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Warning: graphic surgical content on live rabbits.A silent black and white and color film that details the reaction of the gall bladder of a rabbit to an injection of cholecystokinin (a peptide hormone), three subjects shown before and after injection. Two subjects shown to react favorably, gall bladder evacuates and contracts; a third subject did not react favorably, no contraction seen. Reasons for different reactions not given.Film by D. N. Danforth, H. Doubilet,...
Dates:
1938
Effects of Direct Interrupted Electro-Shock on Experimental Neuroses, 1950
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Warning: this film includes footage of research animals receiving electro-shock therapy. This silent black and white film details experiments on animals which aim to mitigate experimentally induced neurotic behavior with square-wave (Leduc) electro-shock therapy (EST). Normal behavior animals use as control group, both groups received EST. EST found to mitigate neurotic behavior, but inhibits learning skills and normal behavior overall.Passed by the Committee on...
Dates:
1950
Gall-Bladder Contraction and Evacuation Caused by the Hormone "Cholecystokinin", 1929
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Warning: graphic content of surgical operations on research dogs.A silent black and white film detailing gallbladder reaction to injections of cholecystokinin. Apparatus for measuring gallbladder pressure used to record pressure movements in research dogs. Diagrams and close-up photography detail use of apparatus. Three research dogs given injections and observed through photography and x-ray, all subjects show gallbladder evacuation. Human subject with pericholecystitis also...
Dates:
1929