Page 10 University Daily Kansan, April 30, 1982
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Beagles take to a dog's life in drug testing lab
By KEVIN HELLIKER Staff Reporter
The dogs are trained to line up for drugs.
The injections aren't considered harmful, just unapproved as yet for humans, said Taker Higuchi, a professor of chemistry and research in INTERX, a pharmaceutical laboratory on West Campus.
Researchers at INTERx keep about 40 bengues on hand for experimentation with drugs. Higuchi said. Mostly the antibiotics or drugs given to the dogs
are designed to fight such human ailments as arthritis.
Karen Engle, an assistant at INTERx, who trains the dogs and administers drugs to them, said they were working around the building than as nausea pills.
"Everybody here just loves the dickens out of them," she said. "Everybody's got their favorite dog."
HIGUCHI SAID the laboratory bought the beagles as puppies, worked with them for about five years and then settled the animals into good homes.
"Any animal experimentation is looked on suspiciously." he said. "But
we provide as humane and comfortable environment here as possible."
The dogs are kept in cages in a brick shelter behind the INTERx building. Once every six days, they are brought into the room and injected with drugs, Engle said.
"The animals always want to come into the building because they like the attention." she said.
Engle said the dogs received individual attention, to the extent that most of the 40 acquired their own names such as Tyrone, Picasso and Ralph.
"We feel that these are very distinctive animals." Higuchi said.
Many of the animals are named after KU professors, he said. But he declined to say which professors' names had been borrowed.
Higuchi said beagles were first used as experimental animals about 100 years ago and because the dogs were so injured, the practice had continued.
"Our animals are so friendly," he said, "they are totally cooperative."
feels particularly rambunctious, you just let him feel good."
BUT EVEN DOGS have their bad days, Engle said.
Riguchi said that dogs, like people, reacted to drugs differently, and their individual reactions were largely the same for each animal's emotional makeup.
"If a dog is down some day, you give him a little break," she said, "and if he
"There are great distinctions between dogs," she said. "Some dogs are hyperactive, and others are calm. That is where the difference is that dogs are absorbed through the intestines."
Higuchi said the dogs were never subjected to unhealthy drugs on a permanent basis. In fact, he said, there was no evidence that the dogs had the laboratory released them because
they were healthier and better trained than most animals.
"We've never had to sacrifice a dog," he said.
INTERx has worked with the beagles for about 10 years.
"I if we don't have healthy and happy dogs, we don't have good experiments," Engle said.
bangle, who has lived in the country with animals all her life, began working with the bangles about a year ago. She saw that she had a better subject to work with, she said.
"They're warmer than most people," she said.
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