Unit Laboratory animals and animal experiments
- Course
- Veterinary medicine
- Study-unit Code
- A000681
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Paolo Mosci
- Teachers
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- Paolo Mosci
- Hours
- 25 ore - Paolo Mosci
- CFU
- 1
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2018
- Offered
- 2022/23
- Learning activities
- A scelta dello studente
- Area
- A scelta dello studente
- Academic discipline
- VET/08
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- Knowledge of the possibility and usefulness of carrying out research projects using laboratory animals is provided and on the relevant legal provisions. Therefore, the ethology and biology of the most common laboratory animal species, the different breeding techniques, the interfering environmental conditions, In addition, containment techniques and basic experimental procedures, animal welfare conditions and refinement criteria for the definition of a human endpoint and the design of an experimental design are illustrated.
- Reference texts
- 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) Laboratory animal biology: mouse,rat,hamster,gerbil,guinea pig, rabbit.
2) Animal welfare, 3R, Hhumane endpoint
3) Priciples of laboratory animal anesthesia
4) Basic experimental procedures and manual skills.
5) Legislation concerning animal experimentation
6) Experimemntal design