Lab Animal
- 37, 5 (2008)
doi:10.1038/laban0508-216
Report of the 2006 RSPCA/UFAW Rodent Welfare Group meetingBarney Reed, BSc, MSc1, Penny Hawkins, BSc, PhD (Secretary)1, Naomi Latham, BSc, PhD2, Kerry Westwood, BSc, PhD3, Katja van Driel, BSc, MSc4, Cliff Battram, HNC5, Huw Golledge, BSc, PhD6, Anne-Marie Farmer, PhD, BVSc, BVBiol, MRCVS7, Nikki Osborne, BSc, PhD1, Maggy Jennings, BSc, PhD1 & Robert Hubrecht, BSc, PhD81
Research Animals Department, Science Group, RSPCA, Wilberforce Way, Southwater, West Sussex RH13 9RS, UK. 2
Zoology Department, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK. 3
Centre for Behavioural Biology, University of Bristol, Department of Clinical Veterinary Science, Langford House, Langford BS40 5DU, UK. 4
Central Science Laboratory, Sand Hutton, York YO41 1LZ, UK. 5
Respiratory Diseases, Novartis Institute for BioMedical Research, Wimblehurst Road, Horsham, West Sussex RH12 5AB, UK. 6
Comparative Biology Centre, School of Neurology, Neurobiology and Psychiatry, The Medical School, University of Newcastle, Framlington Place, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4HH, UK. 7
Animals Scientific Procedures Division, Home Office, 1st Floor—S.W. Quarter, Seacole Building, 2 Marsham Street, London SW1P 4DF, UK. 8
UFAW, The Old School, Brewhouse Hill, Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire AL4 8AN, UK.
Correspondence should be addressed to Penny Hawkins, BSc, PhD (Secretary) The RSPCA/UFAW Rodent Welfare Group holds a one-day meeting every autumn to discuss current welfare research and to exchange views on rodent welfare issues. A key aim of the group is to encourage people to think about the lifetime experience of laboratory rodents, ensuring that every potential influence on their well-being has been reviewed and refined. Speakers at the 2006 meeting presented preliminary findings of ongoing studies and discussed regulatory updates. Topics included the housing and husbandry of mice and rats, refining the use of rodents in asthma research, good practice for the euthanasia of rodents using carbon dioxide and achieving reduction by sharing genetically modified mice.
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