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The cost manual of laboratory animal care and use : refinement, reduction, and research / edited by Bryan Howard, Timo Nevalainen and Gemma Perretta.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Laboratory animals--Laboratory manuals.
- Laboratory animals.
- Genre:
- Laboratory manuals.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (424 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- COST Manual of Laboratory Animal Care and Use
- Place of Publication:
- Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, 2010.
- Summary:
- Judge Your Practices Against This Benchmark Manual COST Action B-24 established four working groups to research and discuss issues relevant to laboratory animal science. These included the housing of animals, environmental needs, refinement of procedures, genetically modified animals, and cost-benefit analysis. Based on the groups’ findings, The COST Manual of Laboratory Animal Care and Use: Refinement, Reduction, and Research provides a consensual European view of best practices for individuals and institutions caring for and working with laboratory animals.
- Contents:
- chapter 1 Introduction
- chapter 2 Design and Oversight of Laboratory Animal Facilities
- chapter 3 Housing and Care of Laboratory Animals
- chapter 4 Animal Needs and Environmental Refinement
- chapter 5 Ethical Evaluation of ScientificProcedures: Recommendations for Ethics Committees
- chapter 6 Reduction by Careful Design and Statistical Analysis
- chapter 7 Animal Models: Selecting and Preparing Animals for a Study
- chapter 8 Creation of Genetically Modified Animals
- chapter 9 Management of Genetically Modified Rodents
- chapter 10 Impact of Handling,Radiotelemetry, and Food Restriction
- chapter 11 Basic Procedures: Dosing,Sampling and Immunisation
- chapter 12 Imaging Techniques
- chapter 13 Anaesthesia and Analgesia
- chapter 14 Use of Humane Endpointsto Minimise Suffering
- chapter 15 Euthanasia
- chapter 16 Education, Training,and Competence
- chapter 17 Animal Experimentation and Open Communication.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.
- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781000218947
- 1000218945
- 9780429146060
- 042914606X
- 9781439824924
- 1439824924
- 9781439824931
- 1439824932
- OCLC:
- 967107295
- Access Restriction:
- Unrestricted online access
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