Added to cages as inserts, nest boxes can provide complexity in standard laboratory caging. Nest boxes can provide a dark retreat from high light intensity within an animal room, a retreat from a ...

The shelf life is 18 months at room temperature ... National Research Council. Rodents: Laboratory Animal Management 86–87 (National Academy Press, Washington, DC, 1996). 9 CFR 3.13–3.19.

The Purdue Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee and the Laboratory Animal Program perform distinct and complementary roles to ensure animal well-being in research, testing, and teaching. The ...

Laboratory Animal Centre has the animal management system, LabAnimals Pro, which is a web browser based, online service. The system serves the staff of the LAC and research groups with animal ...

Rodents (mice and rats) accounted for the largest proportion of laboratory animals at around 78.8 percent, followed by fish (19.4 percent). Other animal groups, such as birds (1.0 percent), were used ...

The Max Planck Society’s scientists, vets and animal keepers take their responsibility in relation to the implementation of animal research and the provision of species-appropriate facilities for ...

Animal research at the University of Alabama at Birmingham is accredited by the Association for Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care International (AAALAC), is registered as a ...

It's my experience with group- and single-housed rhesus and stump-tailed macaques that catching animals who get loose can be a very traumatic, chaotic event not only for the animal who is free but for ...

2 Scharmann, W. 1991 Improved housing of mice, rats and guineapigs: a contribution to the refinement of animal experimentation. Alternatives to Laboratory Animals, Vol. 19, 108-114 3 Fenske, M. (1992) ...