The University of Michigan’s Unit for Laboratory Animal Medicine (ULAM) has a diverse Training Core that teaches a wide variety of techniques on all common laboratory species. The most common species ...

Part 1: Principles of safer handling and physical restraint. Safer animal handling and physical restraint -- Animal behavior -- Part 2: Household and laboratory animals. Containments for household, ...

Animal model experiments have an essential place in the infrastructure of biomedical science. The literature is replete with papers studying various physiological and organ systems in which animals ...

Mouse handling and restraint affect behavior, physiology, and animal welfare, yet little information is available on how various mouse restraint methods affect cardiovascular parameters. We validated ...

There is increasing evidence that, compared to non-aversive handling methods (i.e., tunnel and cupping), tail handling has a negative impact on mouse welfare. Despite this evidence, there are still ...

Temple Grandin read psychology, then switched to animal science. She is now associate professor of animal science at Colorado State University. Grandin researches cattle handling, restraint and ...

The Laboratory Ferret is the latest volume in the Laboratory Animal Pocket Reference Series by CRC Press. This volume provides clinicians and technicians working with the domestic ferret (Mustela ...

A central feature in our lives with companion animals is the use of force. Instances of physical restraint in the home are ubiquitous. We hold our animals still so often that we might not even be ...

A study carried out by epidemiologist Dr. John Tulloch at the University of Liverpool in collaboration with CVS, has revealed the scale and complexity of ...