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Post-anaesthetic care (EU 21-6)

Recovery from anaesthesia and post-anaesthetic support.

E-learning

A guinea pig recovering from anaesthesia in a nest of hay on top of a towel in a warming chamber.

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Pain alleviation (EU 21-7)

Post-operative pain relief for laboratory animals, including selecting and using analgesics.

E-learning

A close up of an animal being injected with analgesia

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Pain assessment (EU 21-8)

Recognising pain and assessing its severity in laboratory animals following surgery.

E-learning

Screenshot of the EU 21-8 training module, featuring a mouse on a gloved hand

Non-human primate accommodation, care and use guidelines

Guidelines on non-human primate accommodation, care and use adopted by the major UK bioscience funders.

Guidance | Hard copy

The front cover of the "Non-human primate accommodation, care and use guidelines" document on a green background.

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Marmoset care website

A comprehensive resource on common marmosets, funded by the NC3Rs.

Guidance

Rehoming ex-laboratory non-human primates

Advice on rehoming ex-laboratory non-human primates.

Senses and communication: Non-human primate

Primate sensory capabilities and communication signals: implications for care and use in the laboratory

A rhesus macaque looks in a mirror hung outside its cage

Housing and husbandry: Non-human primate

Information to help refine the housing and husbandry of laboratory non-human primates.

Guidance

A large room housing a breeding group of rhesus macaques. In the background is a floor-to-ceiling height bay window, letting lots of natural light into the room. The floor is covered in a deep layer of wood shavings, with one monkey on the floor foraging for scattered food. Wooden ladders, platforms and shelves fill the walls and room space, some of which have monkeys resting on them. Suspended from the ceiling are swings made from wood and ropes, and from plastic barrels and firehoses.

Training animals

Guidance on implementing positive reinforcement training methods.

Guidance

Marmoset being handfed as part of positive reinforcement training

Chronic Implants Wiki

Wiki on refinement of the use of chronic implants in neuroscience research using non-human primates. DISCONTINUED.

Guidance

Refining food and fluid control in macaques

Guidelines on the use of food and fluid control in behavioural neuroscience.

Guidance

A macaque sits in its homecage on top of a plastic pipe holding a rope