Formed in 1950. Concerns production, care and study. Develops standards and training with the Animal Technician Training Board (ATCB) 

American Association for Laboratory Animal Science (AALAS) 

Ensures that animals are treated humanely and workers are properly trained. Formed in 1985 in response to the Animal Welfare Act

Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC)

Mixed characteristics of mom and dad. Used for transplants and drug models because genetics are still mapped out

Hybrid

Factors to consider when designing a facility (5)

Temperature, sanitation, ventilation, lighting, noise

Gestation in the mouse

19 to 21 days

Post-partum estrus occurs within this time frame after delivery (mice)

14-28 hours

Where IP injections are given (mice)

Lower right ventral adbomen (LRVA)

Mite commonly seen in mice or rats

Myobia

Mammary tumors are usually this

Malignant

Disease caused by clostridium pilformes

Tyzzer's disease

IP injection for rats

Lower left ventral abdomen (LLVA)

Rat gestation

21 to 23 days

When post-partum estrus occurs in rats

48 hours after deliver

To palpate for rats for pregnancy

8 days

Causes head tilt and red-brown discharge from nose and eyes

Chronic Murine Pneumonia

Caused by low humidity level in the housing area

Ringtail

Zoonotic strep bacterial infection that causes fever, arthritis and sometime septicemia in people

Rat Bite

Regulates and enforces Animal Welfare Act

USDA

Provides standrads that laboratories must comply with

Association for the Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care (AAALAC)

four breeding types

Random, inbred, hybrid, mutant

Three ways of euthanisa

Injectable, inhaled, cervical dislocation

Euthansia that doesn't harm tissue

Decapitation

Zoonotic disease (2)

Lymphatic choriomeningitis, rat bite