Study-unit LABORATORY ANIMALS AND ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION
| Course name | Medical, veterinary and forensic biotechnological sciences |
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| Study-unit Code | A001783 |
| Curriculum | Veterinario |
| Lecturer | Paolo Mosci |
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| CFU | 6 |
| Course Regulation | Coorte 2021 |
| Supplied | 2022/23 |
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| Learning activities | Affine/integrativa |
| Area | Attività formative affini o integrative |
| Sector | 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 |
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| 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 |