Animals 2019, 9, 1104; doi:10.3390/ani9121104
Sunday, 26 January 2020
APPLYING THE 3Rs: A CASE STUDY ON EVIDENCE AND PERCEPTIONS RELATING TO RAT CAGE HEIGHT IN THE UK
Please check this opinion paper at this link!
Animals 2019, 9, 1104; doi:10.3390/ani9121104
Animals 2019, 9, 1104; doi:10.3390/ani9121104
Tuesday, 14 January 2020
LOOKING FOR SOMETHING TO READ?
A flyer/poster was developed by NORECOPA to show its latest developments and it also gives useful links to the International Culture of Care Network, a compilation of severity classification systems for procedures and guidance documents for certain procedures such as toe-clipping and fasting in rodents:
The RSPCA has updated their website now including a new Reports and Resource hub. This now includes videos from a conference in Oxford on Animal Sentience:
Another Swedish study on group housing male mice was carried out by Swedish animal facilities:
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/9/12/1010/htm
Regarding male mice, there is also another Nature publication out by Barabas et al, 2019, on ‘Proteome characterisation of used nesting material and potential protein sources from group housed male mice, ‘Mus musculus’:
The presentations from the Danish 3R-Centre Symposium, which took place in November 2019, are now available online, covering presentations like the mouse passport, the 9 to 5 rodent by Penny Hawkins, sex bias in pre-clinical research and handling and training for less stressed laboratory rodents (RISE Research Institute Sweden):
The RISE Research Institute Sweden has also made available a video in training and habituation techniques used for rodents at RISE:
Handling and training of rodents was also a topic of the 2019 NC3Rs/IAT Animal Technicians Symposium held in November 2019:
A new paper on ‘Confusing preclinical (predictive) drug screens with animal models of psychiatric disorders, or ‘disorder-like’ behaviour, is undermining confidence in behavioural neuroscience’:
Capas-Peneda et al (2019) from the University in Porto, Portugal, have developed a necropsy protocol for newborn mice:
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