Teaching materials in Laboratory Animal Science

Introduction

While there are many web sites that describe laboratory animal facilities and suppliers, there appear to be relatively few that address the above topics.

Much of the information below has kindly been provided by members of the Comparative Medicine discussion list (CompMed), to whom we are very grateful.

Please note:

These pages are in their infancy. Our aim is to acknowledge all efforts to provide teaching materials on the web. Information cited here is not ranked in any form of priority, importance or category. Any omissions are wholly unintentional.

Please send details of omissions or factual errors, or any other comments you may have, to:

Adrian Smith, Laboratory Animal Unit, Norwegian School of Veterinary Science, P.O. Box 8146 Dep., 0033 Oslo, Norway.

Telephone: +47 22 96 45 74
Telefax: +47 22 96 45 35
Email: adrian.smith@veths.no

• Films and slide series of basic techniques on common laboratory animal species

• A collection of links to teaching materials on the Internet of relevance to veterinary medicine compiled by VetGate, a gateway to evaluated, high-quality resources in animal health. VetGate is created by a team of information specialist based at the University of Nottingham Greenfield Medical Library, in partnership with the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons and the Royal Veterinary College.

• Scand-LAS Tech Tips: a collection of links to presentations describing a range of techniques for use on research animals.

• Lecture notes from the Research Animal Resources, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

• Veterinary Pathology collection at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP), Washington, D.C., USA

• Pathology of Laboratory Animals collection from the AFIP

• Parasites of laboratory animals

• Lecture notes from the University of Arizona Health Sciences Center, Tucson, Arizona, USA

• Environmental Enhancement for Caged Rhesus Macacques

• Photographs of a homemade sling used to restrain sedated pigs

• The Microinjection Workshop explaining the theory and practice of the production of transgenic animals using microsurgical DNA injection

• Production of Pharmaceutical Proteins in Transgenic Animals by Dr. Rick T. Dobrowsky.

• Mickey - The Inside Story - a necropsy guide for the mouse.

• The University of Florida, Animal Resources, has assembled a list of Online Training Programs and Materials.

• Variables in animal-based research: Part 1. Phenotypic variability in experimental animals, by Ivor Harris. A Fact Sheet issued by ANZCCART.

• Quick reference paper on laboratory animal feeding and nutrition. Report from the FELASA working group.

• Article in Laboratory Animals describing a technique for blood sampling using the saphenous vein: an alternative to retro-orbital puncture. You will need Acrobat Reader to open this PDF-file.

• Pictures showing the saphenous vein technique.

• Examination of vaginal smears in the rat.

• Research Animal Resources from the University of Minnesota.

• Publications cited by the Institute for Laboratory Animal Research (ILAR), Washington, D.C., USA

• The web pages that describe databases addressing the three R's may be of help. Among others, the NORINA database, the PREX database and the UC Center for Animal Alternatives contain information on written teaching materials.

• Pictures of rabbit pathology

• Bleeding and intravenous techniques in pigs

• Pictures of a cross-fostering technique in the rat

• Pictures of Caesarian rederivation in the mouse

• Pictures of vaginal plugs in mice

• Pictures of the vena saphena technique for bleeding of mink

• Valg av midler til sedasjon, anestesi og analgesi

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  Other sources:
  • Browsing the Web - an introduction
  • Essentials For Animal Research: A Primer For Research Personnel
  • On-line Medical Dictionary
  • Arguments for and against the use of laboratory animals, a collection of links for schoolchildren and others wishing to examine the views held in society.

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  This page is provided by the server of the Laboratory Animal Unit, at the Norwegian School of Veterinary Science, Oslo.

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