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Animal Care & Use
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Policies and Guidance

Animal Housing

  • Facility Inspections
  • Acclimation of Research Animals
  • Environmental Enrichment
  • Ectothermic Vertebrates
  • Wire-Bottom Caging
  • Holding Protocol
  • Quarantine of Research Animals

Animal Welfare

  • Compliance – Staying Out of Trouble
  • Ensuring Animal Welfare
  • Food/Water Restriction and Dietary Variances
  • Pain and Distress
  • Reporting Adverse Events in Animal Research

Lab Safety

  • Personal Protective Equipment
  • Security in Laboratories
  • Volunteers in the Lab

Procedures

  • Antibody Production
  • Blood Collection in Rodents
  • Breeding Colony for Rodents
  • Restraint
  • Ether
  • Surgery in Live Animals
  • Multiple Survival Surgery

Drugs & Agents

  • Controlled Substances
  • Drug Use and Medical Materials in Animals
  • Hazardous Agents
  • Anesthesia Equipment Maintenance

Establishing Humane Endpoints

  • Humane Endpoints
  • Euthanasia

Reporting and Record-Keeping

  • Modifications to Protocols
  • Record Retention Requirements
  • Record-Keeping and Reporting of Animal Numbers

Other Guidance

  • Collaborations with Other Institutions
  • Video-recording and Photography of Live Animal Procedures
  • Sanitation/Disinfection of Researcher-Maintained Animal Equipment
  • Adoption of Research Animals
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