the guide - Answer-evaluates institutions' overall animal program and inspects all sites every 6 months, evaluates research protocols and if necessary suspends PHS supported activity
Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee - Answer-IACUC
Animal Care and Facilities Committee - Answer-ACFC ...
Lab Animal Science Exam 1 Questions
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the guide - Answer-evaluates institutions' overall animal program and inspects all sites
every 6 months, evaluates research protocols and if necessary suspends PHS
supported activity
Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee - Answer-IACUC
Animal Care and Facilities Committee - Answer-ACFC (at Rutgers)
IACUC - Answer-consists of 5 members, at least 1 vet, 1 scientist, and 1 unaffiliated
diuresis cage - Answer-cage where urine flows along the inside surface of the collection
funnel and is directed into the urine collection tube; the separating grid prevents feces to
pass through
animal experimentation - Answer-the scientific study of animals, usually in a laboratory,
for the purpose of gaining new biological knowledge or solving specific medical, dental,
veterinary, or biological problems
laboratory animal care - Answer-the application of veterinary medicine and animal
science to the acquisition of laboratory animals and to their management, nutrition,
breeding, and diseases
laboratory animal medicine - Answer-recognized by the AVMA as the specialty field
within veterinary medicine that is concerned with the diagnosis, treatment, and
prevention of diseases in animals used as subjects in biomedical activities; also
encompasses the methods of minimizing pain or discomfort in research animals and the
identification of complicating factors in animal research
comparative medicine - Answer-the study of nature, cause, and cure of abnormal
structure and function in people, animals, and plants for the eventual application to
benefit all living things
laboratory animal science - Answer-the body of scientific and technical information,
knowledge and skills that bears on both laboratory animal care and laboratory animal
medicine and that is roughly analogous to "animal science" in the agricultural sector
Aristotle - Answer-the founder of biology, studied comparative anatomy
Erasistratus - Answer-first person to experiment on living animals
Claude Bernard - Answer-person who developed experimental physiology
, Louis Pasteur - Answer-person who discovered infectious diseases
Institute of Laboratory Animal Resources - Answer-ILAR
Association for the Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care - Answer-
AAALAC
rights - Answer-a claim that one party may exercise against another within a community
of moral agents
moral agents - Answer-beings capable of making moral judgements and
comprehending moral duty
National Institute of Health - Answer-NIH
analgesics - Answer-painkillers given after surgery
systematics - Answer-the branch of biology concerned with the diversity of life,
encompassing taxonomy
phylogeny - Answer-evolutionary history of a species or a group of related species
epithet - Answer-2nd word of an individual species' scientific name
200g - Answer-rat weight
6-8 weeks - Answer-sexual maturity for male rats
5 weeks - Answer-first estrus cycle for female rats
34-109 days - Answer-vaginal opening in rats
15-51 days - Answer-testes descend in rats
4-5 days - Answer-estrus cycle of rats
12 hours - Answer-length of estrus in rats
20-22 months - Answer-decrease of female fertility in rats
16-20 month - Answer-decrease of male fertility in rats
100-300 days - Answer-maximum fertility age in rats
19-23 days - Answer-gestation of rats
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