A guide to defining and implementing protocols for the welfare assessment of laboratory animals: Eleventh report of the BVAAWF/FRAME/RSPCA/UFAW Joint Working Group on Refinement

Laboratory Animals

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-13

  Hawkins, P ^a   Morton, D B ^b   Burman, O ^c   Dennison, N ^d   Honess, P ^e   Jennings, M ^a   Lane, S ^f   Middleton, V ^g   Roughan, J V ^h   Wells, S ^h   Westwood, K ^a  

^a Research Animals Department   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Lincoln ^*

^c Home Office Central Research Establishment   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e NOVARTIS HORSHAM RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^f Huntingdon Research Centre   (United Kingdom)

^g NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^h MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Humane endpoints; Pain assessment; Refinement; Score sheets; Welfare assessment

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL CARE; ANIMAL TESTING REFINEMENT; ARTICLE; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL WELFARE; NONHUMAN; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMAL WELFARE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; LABORATORY ANIMAL SCIENCE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 78751700064     PISSN: 00236772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/la.2010.010031     Document Type: Article

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