Unit BREEDING BIOTECHNOLOGIES AND LABORATORY ANIMALS
- Course
- Medical, veterinary and forensic biotechnological sciences
- Study-unit Code
- A001782
- Curriculum
- Veterinario
- Teacher
- Andrea Verini Supplizi
- CFU
- 12
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2019
- Offered
- 2020/21
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa integrata
BIOTECHNOLOGY APPLIED TO ANIMAL BREEDING
| Code | A001784 |
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| CFU | 6 |
| Teacher | Andrea Verini Supplizi |
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| Learning activities | Affine/integrativa |
| Area | Attività formative affini o integrative |
| Academic discipline | AGR/19 |
| Type of study-unit | Obbligatorio (Required) |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Contents | Principal biotechnologies applied to animal breeding, including procedures used for genetic improvement of farm animals. |
| Reference texts | Genetics and genomics 3, Barcaccia Falcinelli, Ed Liquors 2007 available handouts lessons, online material, |
| Educational objectives | The student has to acquire basic knowledge on the principal biotechnologies applied to animal production including aquatic organism. Moreover, the impact of biotechnology on animal weklfare, animal breeding and food safety The main skills are: DNA extraction up to the execution and interpretation of PCR Recovery and evaluation of female gametes These skills will be acquired and evaluated during laboratory exercises |
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| Teaching methods | Face-to-face Laboratory |
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| Learning verification modality | |
| Extended program | Introduction to biotechnology Utilisation of biotechnologies and Environmental impact Reproductive Biotechnologies MOET Cryoconservation of gametes Embryo Sexing Sperm Sexing IVM IVF- IVC Reproductive Cloning by blastomere and somatic cells Non reproductive cloning by somatic and stem cells Transgenic animals: transfer of gene construct: Transgenic animals: applications in animal production |
LABORATORY ANIMALS AND ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION
| Code | A001783 |
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| CFU | 6 |
| Teacher | Paolo Mosci |
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| Learning activities | Affine/integrativa |
| Area | Attività formative affini o integrative |
| Academic discipline | VET/08 |
| Type of study-unit | Obbligatorio (Required) |
| Language of instruction | Italian |
| Contents | The course provides notions about the possibility and the usefulness of activating research projects using laboratory animals and the current legal provisions concerning.The ethology and biology of the most common species of laboratory animals, breeding techniques, pathologies, their genetic and microbiological classification. Are therefore treated the basic experimental procedures and manipulations, the conditions of animal welfare and the setting of the experimental design are also illustrated. |
| Reference texts | priciples of laboratory animals science.(LFM.van Zupten) Goliardica Pavese The experimental Animal in Biomedical Research vol II (B.E. Rollin) CRC PRESS |
| Educational objectives | Knowledge and understanding.The student must know the biological and ethological basis of the species of experimental interest, the techniques of management and housing of animals, the basic techniques and procedures for the activation of experimental protocols, the methods of assessment of the state of well-being, The criteria for the scientific design of an experimental design. |
| Prerequisites | In order to understand the topics treated, the knowledge of Ethology, Animal Anatomy and Physiology and General Pathology are useful |
| Teaching methods | lectures and laboratory activities in the laboratories of the Animal Facility of Università degli Studi di Perugia |
| Other information | |
| Learning verification modality | final test |
| Extended program | 1.Animal experimentation: validity and ethical aspects. 2.Legislation concerning animal experimentation 3. Laboratory animal biology: mouse,rat,hamster,gerbil,guinea pig, rabbit 4. Breeding and housing techniques. 5. overview of pahtology of laboratory animals. 6. Genetic classification of laboratory animals. 7. Microbiological classificationof laboratory animals. 8. Animal welfare, 3R, Hhumane endpoint. 9 Priciples of laboratory animal anesthesia. 10. Basic experimental procedures and manual skills. 11. Elements of embryonic manipolation.ù 12. experimemntal design |