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The use of animals in research adheres to scientific and ethical principles that promote humane care and practice. Scientific advances in our understanding of animal physiology and behavior often require theories to be revised and standards of practice to be updated to improve laboratory animal welfare. Recognition and Alleviation of Pain in Laboratory Animals, the second of two reports revising the 1992 publication Recognition and Alleviation...

A respected resource for decades, the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals has been updated by a committee of experts, taking into consideration input from the scientific and laboratory animal communities and the public at large. The Guide incorporates new scientific information on common laboratory animals, including aquatic species, and includes extensive references. It is organized around major components of animal use: Key conc...

Providing updated guidelines based on current scientific research, this provides new, evidence-based techniques to use with animals in research, testing and education. These guidelines are based on a number of US and international standards that seek to eliminate pain and distress in such animals or at least reduce it as much as possible unless scientifically justified. This begins by defining both "stress" and "distress" and describing method...