Definition of key terms used in breeding and colony management.
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A dedicated website with resources for everyone who works with, or is interested in, laboratory macaques.
For answers to more specific questions about colony management or breeding difficult strains you can email our dedicated advice service.
Learn more about why the single use of needles should be standard practice and how to implement this in your facility.
Ensuring best practice in anaesthesia for minor procedures.
Factors to consider prior to anaesthesia of laboratory animals.
How to choose appropriate anaesthetic agents and regimens.
Why and how to monitor anaesthetised animals.
Use of different anaesthetic breathing systems, airway management, and neuromuscular blocking drugs.
Managing anaesthesia and what can be done to prevent problems.
Recovery from anaesthesia and post-anaesthetic support.
The Fish Behaviour Index (FBI) is an automated tool to monitor the behaviour of singly housed zebrafish.
The welfare benefits of double-decker rodent cages in allowing rats to engage in natural behaviours.
Group housed zebrafish show lower levels of stress and anxiety when they undergo procedures than those who are housed singly.
Guidelines on non-human primate accommodation, care and use adopted by the major UK bioscience funders.
Key issues for the humane killing of laboratory animals.
It starts at the very beginning: Scientific and welfare reasons for reviewing neonate care
General principles in analgesia to support best practice.
Examples of study designs that may be used for microsampling from either main study animals or from satellite groups of animals.
Information to help refine the housing and husbandry of laboratory non-human primates.
Guidance on implementing positive reinforcement training methods.
Wiki on refinement of the use of chronic implants in neuroscience research using non-human primates. DISCONTINUED.
Guidelines on the use of food and fluid control in behavioural neuroscience.