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Handbook of laboratory animal management and welfare /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wolfensohn, Sarah
Other Authors: Lloyd, Maggie
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; Ames, Iowa : Blackwell Pub., 2003.
Edition:Third edition.
Subjects:
Animals, Laboratory.
Animal Welfare.
Table of Contents:
  • sect. 1. General
  • Education and training for the license holder
  • The regulatory framework
  • Health, safety and security
  • Pain, stress and humane end points
  • Humane methods of killing
  • Introduction to laboratory animal husbandry
  • Anaesthesia of laboratory animals
  • Management of pain, suffering, distress and lasting harm
  • Conduct of minor procedures
  • Introduction to surgery and suturing
  • The project license application
  • sect. 2. Species
  • Small laboratory animals
  • Genetically modified animals and harmful mutants
  • Carnivores
  • Primates
  • The larger domestic species
  • Birds
  • Amphibia
  • Wild animals