Unit LABORATORY ANIMALS AND ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION

Course
Medical, veterinary and forensic biotechnological sciences
Study-unit Code
A001783
Curriculum
Veterinario
Teacher
Paolo Mosci
Teachers
  • Paolo Mosci
Hours
  • 52 ore - Paolo Mosci
CFU
6
Course Regulation
Coorte 2021
Offered
2022/23
Learning activities
Affine/integrativa
Area
Attività formative affini o integrative
Academic discipline
VET/08
Type of study-unit
Obbligatorio (Required)
Type of learning activities
Attività formativa monodisciplinare
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
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