Measurement by infrared thermography of skin temperature variations in mice undergoing a surgery event

As IRT is potentially a great tool according to the EU laws, a survey was carried out on mice after a surgery event recording skin temperature variations on selected body areas. Measures have been taken the day before the surgery, immediately after, at 1, 7, 14 and 21 days after. A similar trend was found: temperatures increase until the day 7 and then come down reaching values not significatively different from the basal ones at day 21. This first results are useful to provide reference values for a most common daily use of IRT technique in animal lab facilities.