Profile
Dr. Sarita Jena is having 17 years of experience as a Laboratory Animal Scientist in Institute of Life Sciences, Bhubaneswar. She has undergone International Course on Laboratory Animal Sciences (FELASA-C) from Utrecht University in collaboration with IGIB and CPCSEA, New Delhi in 2013; Lab Vet Europe (FELASA-D Accredited) course from Copenhagen University, Denmark in 2017. She served Laboratory Animal Scientist Association of India and Laboratory Animal Veterinarian’s Association of India in the capacity of Executive Committee member. She served as representative of Member Organisation: LASA in AAALAC-International from Jan 2021 to May 2023. She has experience and expertise in working with different laboratory animals like mouse, rat, hamster and rabbit and in development of animal model in following disorders 1. Infectious Disease Models 2. Cancer Research Models 3. Metabolic disorders 4. Acute, Sub-Acute Toxicity testing 5. Induction of disease conditions through surgical interventions 5. Efficacy study of biomaterials She has authored various reviews and book chapters on laboratory animal species, patho physiology, models of different diseases. She has also authored research articles with respect to different infectious diseases, laboratory animal specific diseases and Acute and sub-acute toxicity study.
Current Focus Areas
1. Welfare, care, breeding and health monitoring of laboratory animals 2. Providing training to researchers about planning and execution of animal experiments 3. Development and characterisation of Animal models of different diseases. 4. Providing Animal experiment services to external Government and non-Government institutions on fee-for-service mode.
Selected Publications
Samal, S., Barik, D., & Jena, S. (2023). Post craniotomy pain management in Copenhagen rat by intraperitoneal or oral dosage of Tramadol: a comparative evaluation. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 16116.
Devi, T. B., Jena, S., Patra, B., Singh, K. D., Chawla, S., Raina, V., ... & Rajashekar, Y. (2022). Acute and sub-acute toxicity evaluation of dihydro-p-coumaric acid isolated from leaves of Tithonia diversifolia Hemsl. A. Gray in BALB/c mice. Frontiers in Pharmacology, 13, 1055765.
Chandana, M., Anand, A., Ghosh, S., Das, R., Beura, S., Jena, S., ... & Nagaraj, V. A. (2022). Malaria parasite heme biosynthesis promotes and griseofulvin protects against cerebral malaria in mice. Nature Communications, 13(1), 4028.
Jena, S., & Pawar, V. (2024). Animal Models of Infectious Diseases. In Animal Models in Research (pp. 399-448). Springer, Singapore.
Chawla, S., Jena, S., & Prusty, B. (2015). Different treatment regimen for eradication of pinworm (Syphacia obvelata) infection in mice colony. Journal of Animal Research, 5(2), 321-324.