Staff Profiles

Karatina University

Dr Royford Murangiri Mwobobia

Part-time Lecturer

School: Agriculture and Biotechnology

Department: Agricultural Sciences

 

Email Address: rmurangiri.pt@karu.ac.ke

mmurangiri@gmail.com

 

 

 

Area/ Field of specialization: Experimental medicine and invivo pharmacology

Research interests: Design of animal experiments, laboratory animal science, animal welfare, pain physiology, animal behavior, stress in animal.

 

Research Links: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1473-768X

Biography

Dr Royford Murangiri has a Bachelor degree in veterinary medicine, MSc in Livestock Production and a PhD student in Invivo Pharmacology (Thesis Submitted). He has experiences and skills as a field veterinarian of 14 years and university teaching experience of 6 years. He also possesses skills in design and execution of research using animal models.

Publications

Mwobobia RM, Kanui TI, Abelson KSP (2021). The effects of clonidine and yohimbine in the tail flick and hot plate tests in the naked mole rat (Heterocephalus glaber). BMC Research Notes; 14(1):191. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13104-021-05607-7

Mwobobia, R. M., Kanui, T. I., & Abelson, K. (2020). Investigation of noradrenergic receptor system in anti-nociception using formalin test in the naked mole rat (Heterocephalus glaber). Heliyon, 6(10), e05216. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2020.e05216

Mwobobia R. M., Klas S. P. Abelson., Titus I. Kanui (2020). Housing behaviour of the naked mole rat (heterocephalus glaber) under laboratory conditions, Scandinavian journal of Laboratory Animal Science https://doi.org/10.23675/sjlas.v46i1.1023