Unit 1 (research funding, policies, ethics and administration)
An example of this 3R is providing climbing structures in the housing units of primates
What is Refinement?
The term for preventing pathogens from entering a room to protect the animals inside the room
What is Bioexclusion?
The proper directional terms to explain that Moo Deng has a cut on her left side closer towards the belly
The type of needle that would be used in an ABSL-4 facility
What is a safety needle?
Where newly arrived animals are housed to ensure they are not a source for disease transmission
What is quarantine?
The document that PI's write and submit for research money
What is a federal grant?
Floor plan where a single clean corridor serves housing rooms on both sides and each room has an exit door to a dirty corridor around the entire periphery
What is a three-corridor floor plan?
Sebaceous glands are part of this system
What is the integumentary system?
This procedure requires measuring from the corner of the mouth to the xiphoid process
What is gastric gavage?
When a living organism transmits disease
What is a vector?
The enforcement agency for the AWA
What is the USDA?
A measure of the number of ions within an aqueous solution
What is conductivity?
When an animal differs from the inbred strain by a singular spontaneous mutation
What is Coisogenic?
applying a toxic test substance to the corneal surface of a rabbit
what is the Draize test?
What is vertical transmission?
X-rays, injections, feed and bedding are all examples of this type of budgeting expense
What is a direct cost?
Common household bleach is an example of this type of disinfectant
What is Hypochlorite?
The sum of the atomic mass of each atom in a molecule
What is molecular mass?
The CRT for a health well-perfused animal
What is 2 seconds or less?
When an animal is exposed to the same pathogen twice, and does not develop a second clinical case of the disease, it has gained this
The Guide's 3 words that describe the level of importance with incorporating specific aspects of an animal care program
Must- essential or imperative
Should- strong recommendations
May- suggestion to consider
The 3 types of filters to prevent waste build-up in an aquatic system
Biological (silicone, gravel, glass, plastic)
Mechanical (particulate filter)
Chemical (activated carbon)
procedure in which embryonic stem cells are collected, and then a mutated gene is incorporated through electroporation. The cells that contain the mutation are then inserted into a blastocyst
What is gene targeting by homologous recombination?
The type of hemostatic forceps with longitudinal grooves that are often used to clamp across a tissue mass with a blood vessel
What is a Rochester-Carmalt?
Emergency when there is an excessive loss of body fluid or circulatory control
What is shock?