THE UFAW HANDBOOK ON The Care and Management of Laboratory and Other Research Animals

[Year : 2010] [Size : 18.5 MB] [Format : PDF] [Page : 849]
Editor
Robert Hubrecht and
James Kirkwood

THE UFAW HANDBOOK ON The Care and Management of Laboratory and Other Research Animals

Contents

          Part 1 Implementing the Three Rs in research using animals

• The Three Rs
• The design of animal experiments
• Introduction to laboratory animal genetics
• Phenotyping of genetically modified mice
• Brief introduction to welfare assessment: a ‘toolbox’ of techniques
• Welfare and ‘best practice’ in fi eld studies of wildlife
• Legislation and oversight of the conduct of research using animals: a global overview
• Planning, design and construction of effi cient animal facilities
• Enrichment: animal welfare and experimental outcomes
• Special housing arrangements
• Refi nements in in-house animal production and breeding
• Transportation of laboratory animals
• Nutrition, feeding and animal welfare
• Attaining competence in the care of animals used in research
• Positive reinforcement training for laboratory animals
• Euthanasia and other fates for laboratory animals
  
  Part 2 Species kept in the laboratory Mammals
• Wild mammals
• The laboratory opossum
• Tree shrews
• The laboratory mouse
• The laboratory rat
• The laboratory gerbil
• The Syrian hamster
• The husbandry and welfare of non-traditional laboratory rodents
• Voles
• The guinea pig
• The laboratory rabbit
• The ferret
• The laboratory dog
• The domestic cat
• Pigs and minipigs
• Cattle
• Sheep and goats
• The horse
• Marmosets and tamarins
• Squirrel monkeys
• Capuchin monkeys
• Old World monkeys
• Chimpanzees
• The domestic fowl
• The Japanese quail
• The zebra finch
• Pigeons and doves
• The European starling
• Terrestrial reptiles: lizards, snakes and tortoises
• Aquatic reptiles
• Amphibians, with special reference to Xenopus
• Fish
• Cephalopoda