Rat-Tail Models for Studying Hand-Arm Vibration Syndrome: A Comparison Between Living and Cadaver Rat Tails (Dataset)

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  Over-exposure of the hand-arm system to intense vibration and force over time may cause degeneration of the vascular, neurological, and musculoskeletal systems in the fingers. A novel animal model using rat tails has been developed to understand the health effects on human fingers exposed to vibration and force when operating powered hand tools or workpieces. The biodynamic responses, such as vibration stress, strain, and power absorption density, of the rat tails can be used to help evaluate the health effects related to vibration and force and to establish a dose-effect relationship. While the biodynamic responses of cadaver rat tails have been investigated, the objective of the current study was to determine whether the biodynamic responses of living rat tails are different from those of cadaver rat tails, and whether the biodynamic responses of both living and cadaver tails change with exposure duration. To make direct comparisons, the responses of both cadaver and living rat tails were examined on four different testing stations. The transfer function of each tail under a given contact force (2 N) was measured at each frequency in the one-third octave bands from 20 to 1000 Hz, and used to calculate the mechanical system parameters of the tails. The transfer function was also measured at different exposure durations to determine the time dependency of the response. The biodynamic responses of both cadaver and living rat tails, and the modeling results and time dependency are presented in a manuscript of this study (Warren et al., 2024), the original datasets measured in each trial of the tests are documented in this data description. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Laboratories Occupational Health Safety Vibration
• Keywords:
  Biodynamics Hand-arm Vibration Syndrome HAVS Laboratory Animals Power Tools Vibration Exposure
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHRD-1097-2024-0
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Dataset
• Genre:
  Research Dataset
• Place as Subject:
  Philadelphia Region [OSHA] ; West Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  HELD - Health Effects Laboratory Division
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20070346
• Citation:
  Morgantown, WV: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Research Dataset RD-1097-2024-0, 2024 Dec; :dataset
• Contact Point Address:
  Physical Effects Research Branch, Health Effects Laboratory Division, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Morgantown, West Virginia 26505, USA
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2025
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Rat-tail models for studying hand-arm vibration syndrome: a comparison between living and cadaver rat tails
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:a4dc01099daa7b6d559bc1d68e7ba1839c1f9ddf858a7bbda11d664a4ca6694b5993f7722d99933698debd7aefe4f16cabb4682b2969daef01cf9e8e5d80e345
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/208578/cdc_208578_DS1.pdf
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