Laboratory animals and recognition

Allergy to laboratory animals in laboratory technicians and animal keepers.

The prevalence of allergy to laboratory animals (LAA) was investigated in laboratory technicians and animal keepers. In a questionnaire 41 of 101 technicians reported symptoms provoked by work with laboratory animals. On clinical investigation 30 were found to have symptoms and signs related to contact with animals, and allergy was confirmed by radioallergosorbent tests (RAST) and skin tests in...

Literature Related to Laboratory Animals

red: morph-specific contest success and survival rates in a colour polymorphic agamid lizard. Animal Behaviour 74:337-341. in females is also lateralized: left-eye bias during aggressive courtship rejection in lizards. Assessment in contests of male lizards (Anolis carolinensis): how should smaller males respond when size matters? Animal Behaviour 69:1325-1336.

Care and Management of Laboratory Animals

Laboratory animals and the art of empathy.

Consistency is the hallmark of a coherent ethical philosophy. When considering the morality of particular behaviour, one should look to identify comparable situations and test one's approach to the former against one's approach to the latter. The obvious comparator for animal experiments is non-consensual experiments on people. In both cases, suffering and perhaps death is knowingly caused to t...

The Care and Breeding of Laboratory Animals

As biological research is increasingly concerned with the description of the reactions and adjustments of individuals to the more subtle environmental changes and chronic rather than acute states, there is a growing demand for healthy animals of known lineage-and the necessity for their maintenance under experimental circumstances in normal condition; a demand that arises at a time when a large...