Use of Micropipette-Guided Drug Administration as an Alternative Method to Oral Gavage in Rodent ModelsAngélica Cruz Lebrón 1, Emily Blackwell 1,2, Pedro Balbuena Almodóvar 1, Tasnim Syakirah Faiez 1, Luke A. Mummert 1, Karen S. Sfanos 1,3,4
1Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 2Department of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 3Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, 4Department of Urology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Here, we describe micropipette-guided drug administration (MDA) as an alternative method to oral gavage that incentivizes the research animal to ingest treatments readily with minimal stress and discomfort.
