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Guide to the Care and Use of Experimental Animals, Volume 2

Year Published: 1984Animal Type: All/General

Citation: Canadian Council on Animal Care 1984. Guide to the Care and Use of Experimental Animals, Volume 2 . Canadian Council on Animal Care, Ottawa, Canada.

Guidelines for specification of animals and husbandry methods when reporting the results of experiments

Results are only useful for comparison if all the relevant information concerning experimental conditions is made available. Having to repeat experiments simply because they were badly documented is annoying, time-consuming and expensive. Far more important, it also means that animals...

Year Published: 1985Animal Type: All/General

Citation: Working Committee for the Biological Characterization of laboratory animals/GV-SOLAS 1985. Guidelines for specification of animals and husbandry methods when reporting the results of experiments. Laboratory Animals 19, 106-108.

A definition of stress? In: Animal Stress

Year Published: 1985Animal Type: All/General

Citation: Levine, S. 1985. A definition of stress? In: Animal Stress. Moberg, G. P. (ed), 51-69. Waverly Press, Baltimore, MD.

Animal boredom: Is a scientific study of the subjective experiences of animal possible? In: Advances in Animal Welfare

Boredome, is a process in which animals gradually cease to be active interactors and loose their interest in the environment, becoming apathetic and/or inflexible in their responses.

Year Published: 1985Animal Type: All/General

Citation: Wemelsfelder, F. 1985. Animal boredom: Is a scientific study of the subjective experiences of animal possible? In: Advances in Animal Welfare. Fox, M. W. , Mickley, L. D. (eds), 115-154. Marinus Nijhoff, Den Haag, Netherlands.

Prevention of cage-associated distress

It is our belief that the way laboratory animals are usually caged caused them distress. Environmental enrichment in relation to reduction of distress is discussed. No data are included in this article.

Year Published: 1985Animal Type: All/General

Citation: Spinelli, J. S., Markowitz, H. 1985. Prevention of cage-associated distress. Lab Animal 14(8), 19-22, 24, 28.

Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals, 6th Edition

Good husbandry minimizes variations that can modify an animal's response to experimentation [p. 11]] ...Lighting should be uniformly diffused throughout animal facilities to provide sufficient illumination to aid in maintaining good houskeeping practices, adequate inspection of animals, safe working conditions...

Year Published: 1985Topics: Regulations & Ethical ReviewAnimal Type: All/General

Citation: National Research Council. 1985. Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals, 6th Edition. National Institutes of Health: Bethesda, MD.

Council Directive 86/609 on the Approximation of Laws, Regulations, and Administrative Provisions Regarding the Protection of Animals Used for Experimental and Other Scientific Purposes, Annex II Guidelines for Accommodation and Care of Animals

European guidelines for housing and handling of laboratory animals. The performance of an animal during an experiment depends very much on its confidence in man, something which has to be developed. ... It is therefore recommended that frequent contact should...

Year Published: 1986Animal Type: All/General

Citation: European Economic Community 1986. Council Directive 86/609 on the Approximation of Laws, Regulations, and Administrative Provisions Regarding the Protection of Animals Used for Experimental and Other Scientific Purposes, Annex II Guidelines for Accommodation and Care of Animals. Official Journal of the European Communities, 7-28.

Ethical consideration in toxicology

Toxicologists must realize that their important mission ... does not give them an unconditional license to kill as many animals as they wish and hide behind regulatory requirements, testing guidelines and bureaucratic prescriptions for good laboratory practice.

Year Published: 1985Animal Type: All/General

Citation: Zbinden, G. 1985. Ethical consideration in toxicology. Food and Chemical Toxicology 23, 137-138.

Laboratory Animal Husbandry: Ethology, Welfare and Experimental Variables

Clear discussion and comprehensive review of housing- and handling-related variables affecting research data. Cage size is probably determined more by tradition, economics, and some vague subjective impression about the animal's space requirements. ... The 'queue' effect of treating animals sequentially...

Year Published: 1986Animal Type: All/General

Citation: Fox, M. W. 1986. Laboratory Animal Husbandry: Ethology, Welfare and Experimental Variables. State University of New York Press, Albany, NY.

Ethics of animal welfare in research: The institution’s attempt to achieve appropriate social balance

Physical restraint procedures should be used on awake animals only after alternative procedures have been considered and found to be inadequate. If a restraint will be utilized the animal should be trained or conditioned to the restraining device, using positive...

Year Published: 1986Animal Type: All/General

Citation: Prentice, E. D., Zucker, I. H., Jameton, A. 1986. Ethics of animal welfare in research: The institution's attempt to achieve appropriate social balance. The Physiologist 29, 1&19-21.