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NC3Rs- Quantifying the Potential of Skin Swabbing as a Refinement for DNA Sampling of Laboratory Fish

The recent development of skin swabbing techniques - which produce sufficient DNA for PCR amplification - potentially offers a refined procedure with enormous impact for fish welfare.

Topic: Fish

Cephalopods in Neuroscience: Regulations, Research and the 3Rs
Topic: Cephalopod

RSPCA- Guidance on the Housing and Care of Zebrafish
Topic: Fish

NC3Rs Non-Human Primate Welfare
Topic: Non-Human Primate

Evaluating and Optimizing Fish Health and Welfare During Experimental Procedures  
Topic: Fish

Cephalopods in Research
Topic: Cephalopod

First Ever Survey of Approaches to Monkey Chair Restraint

In a transatlantic collaboration, scientists from the NC3Rs and the Yerkes National Primate Research Center at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia have conducted the first ever survey of the approaches used for training monkeys for chair restraint.

Topic: Non-Human Primate

EU PrimNet Project
Topic: Non-Human Primate

Standardized Welfare Terms for the Zebrafish Community
Topic: Fish

Guidelines for the Care and Welfare of Cephalopods in Research

A consensus based on an initiative by CephRes, FELASA and the Boyd Group.

Topic: Cephalopod

The Macaque Care Website

A free resource for everyone who works with, or is interested in, laboratory macaques.

Topic: Non-Human Primate

Inbred Strains of Mice and Rats-Jax

This page provides access to searchable, hypertext listings of inbred strains of mice and inbred strains of rats. Both sets of information were provided by Dr. Michael FW Festing (MRC Toxicology Unit) and were converted for Web presentation by the Mouse Genome Informatics Group at The Jackson Laboratory.

Topic: Mice, Rat

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