Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC)

Links to Resources on the Web for Investigators

Sites Dealing with IACUC-related Matters

• IACUC.org
• Lab Animal Journal
• Lab Animal IACUC Resource Page
• Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare (OLAW, PHS)
• USDA-APHIS: Animal Care Publications and Policy
• Association for Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care (AAALAC)
• National Association for Biomedical Research (NABR)
• Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research (PRIM&R)

Sources for IACUC-related Publications

• Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals - Institute of Laboratory Animal Resources (ILAR)
• Spanish Version of the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals: Guía para el Cuidado y Uso de los Animales de Laboratorio
• Edition 2002 Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee Guidebook
• Public Health Service Policy on Humane Care and Use of Laboratory Animals
• The Animal Welfare Act

Sites Dealing with Animal Welfare and Disease

• Adjuvants and Antibody Production: Comparisons & Alternative Technologies - AWIC
• Veterinary Anesthesia/Analgesia
  • ACVA Guidelines for Monitoring Anesthetized Veterinary Patients
  • Control of Waste Anesthetic Gases in the Laboratory
  • Selected Analgesic Drug Dosages for Use in Animals
• Net Vet Primate Home Page
• Net Vet Rodent Page
• Rat and Mouse Research Page
• Mouse Genome Informatics
• The Veterinary Specialty of Comparative Medicine - Homepage
• Zoonotic Diseases of Laboratory Animals
• More Zoonotic Diseases (Australasian College of Tropical Medicine)
• AVMA Guidelines on Euthanasia, June 2007

Techniques

• Rodents
  • Mouse Saphenous Vein Blood Collection (Bergen University)
  • Necropsy of the Mouse (Interactive)

Software Products for Manaaging Rodent Breeding Colonies

• http://colonymanagement.jax.org/ (funded by NIH, The Jackson Laboratory's Colony Management System (JCMS) is available for free and is fully supported)

                All products below are commercially available (must be purchased)

• http://katahdin.cshl.org:9331/mouse_trakker/new/mouse_login.pl
• http://www.bigbenchsoftware.com/
• http://www.locustechnology.com/facility.html
• http://www.circusoft.com
• http://www.virtualchemistry.com/VCI/products/MosaicVivarium.aspx
• http://www.transgenic-software.com/default.htm