ANSC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Beagle, Pharmaceutical Drug, Hyponatremia
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Food & fiber production---9,000,000,000 annually in us (8. 5 billion are chickens) Dogs & cats as pets about 110,000,000; estimated 9-10 million euthanized yearly. 56 percent of dogs and 71 percent of cats that enter animal shelters are euthanized. 2011 cats > dogs as pets in the us. Current estimates 20,000,000 laboratory animals used in teaching, research & testing 90% mice and rats. (inexpensive, breed quickly, etc) Association for assessment and accreditation of laboratory animal care international: Reduce- use least amount of animals as possible. Replace- use computer models instead of live animals (especially for prescreening) Refine- improve techniques/ what you are doing to the animal-- don"t do anything you don"t need to do. Nude mouse: - expensive because rare bc of the genetic mutation of no hair. Sprague dawley rats (ours): . 20 plus shipping = . Per diems: : sh. 52/rat/day x 90 days = /rat.
