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. 2019 Jul 1;9(7):405. doi: 10.3390/ani9070405

Table 2.

Experimental procedures.

Day Relative to Joint Injection Age of Animals (days) Performed Procedures
–21 28 Selection of litters and piglets; Weaning and transportation to experimenteal facility
–21 to –1 28–49 Habitation and training (to personnel and being alone in the different test set-ups)
–1 49 Baseline measurements:

  • Video recording of gait (for offline visual scoring)

  • Pressure mat measurements
0 50 General anaesthesia for intra-articular injection:

  • MIA (10 animals, 2 ♂ 1, 8 ♀ 2)

  • Isotonic saline (10 animals, 7 ♂, 3 ♀)
1 51 Day 1 measurements:

  • Video recording of gait (for offline visual scoring)

  • Pressure mat measurements
3 53 Day 3 measurements:

  • Video recording of gait (for offline visual scoring)

  • Pressure mat measurements
7 57 Day 7 measurements:

  • Pressure mat measurements
14 64 Day 14 measurements:

  • Pressure mat measurements
21 71 Day 21 measurements:

  • Pressure mat measurements
28 78 Day 28 measurements:

  • Video recording of gait (for offline visual scoring)

  • Pressure mat measurements
56 106 Day 56 measurements:

  • Pressure mat measurements
68 118 General anaesthesia for euthanasia; necropsy

1 ♂ being an intact male; 2 ♀ being an intact female.