Practical and ethical considerations (FitLab)

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What are the rodent models for physical activity?

  1. Forced exercise model
    • treadmill, swim
    • can put a lot of stress on animals --> does not replicate voluntary motivation to be active in humans
  2. Voluntary exercise model
    • wheel, wall
    • can mimic aspects of the human aerobic exercise training

What are the advantages and disadvantages of human studies?

Advantages
  • data is representative from human/real world
  • usage of interview, questionnaire, blood samples, organoids


Disadvantages:
  • ethical approval
  • privacy limitations
  • challenging to recruit participants
  • challenging in control groups
  • limitation in technical options

What are the advantages and disadvantages of basal (animal) studies?

Advantages:
  • genetic control
  • collection blood, organs
  • moment of tissue collection can be determined by researcher
  • use of invasive techniques
  • less challenging for control groups


Advantages:
  • non-human data --> need to be translated
  • ethical approval

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