The Field of Laboratory Animal Research and the Research Environment
It's the abbreviation for American Association for Laboratory Science
What is AALAS
It's the person that is ultimately
responsible for your safety
in an animal facility.
What is the individual themselves.
How often must rabbit lixits be checked to ensure they are functioning properly.
What is Daily
It's the most commonly used metal in laboratory animal caging
What is Stainless steel.
It's the scientific name of the common house mouse.
What is Mus Musculus ?
It's the scientist that who plans and coordinates all phases of lab research work
What is Principal Investigator or PI
It's what OSHA stands for.
What is
It is the name of the type of washer that is designed for cleaning large equipment. Like bulk carts or large animal caging
Rack washer
It's something that the AWA mandates
all NHPs must have.
What is a psychological enrichment program. The goal of enrichment is to allow animals to do normal activities to alleviate boredom.
It's the type of mice that are produced from many generations of brother x sister matings. Some examples are BALB/c & C57BL/6 mice.
What is and Inbred strain
It's the name of the committee that ensures that an animal research program is in compliance with all applicable laws, regulations and guidelines.
Intuitional Animal Care and Use Committee - IACUC
It's something that must always be secured to a solid surface or kept in a cart designed for it specificly to prevent it from becoming a dangerous projectile.
What is a pressurized gas cylinder
It's the temperature of the final rinse cycle according to the ALAT manual.
180 degrees
In animal rooms, It's the relative humidity range ___ to ____ range.
What is 30% to 70% relative humidity
It is the minimum number of consecutive generations of brother x sister mouse matings to produce an inbred strain.
20. Inbred animal have genetic similarity to that of identical TWINS
It's an international, private, non-profit organization that promotes the humane treatment of animals and accredits laboratories animal research programs.
What is the name of the organization?
What is AALAC - Association for Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care.
It's the most common type of injury in an animal facility.
What is Ergonomic injury / musculoskeletal injury
It's the airtight cabinet designed to be used with high-risk biological agents. There are 2 names for it name either.
What is glove box or Class III BSC
It's the most common plastic
used in rodent cages.
What is Polysulfone. Polycarbonate was the first plastic compound used, but it has been replaced with more heat and chemical resistant plastics.
It's how often fertile mice go into estrus?
What is every 4-5 days. They usually have their first heat at 4 weeks old but often don't bred until 50 days of age or more.
It's the name of the policy that The US Government Principles were incorporated into in 1986.
What is the Public Health Services Policy on the Humane Care and Use of Animals - PHS Policy
It's what the abbreviation
dB stands for
Decibels
It's what the abbreviation RODAC stands for
What is Replicate Organism Detection and Counting
A Jiffy Cage Wash measures at 100 decibels while running. You do not need to wear hearing protection?
Exposure to anything that is above 85dB requires hearing protection.
It's the name of the injury that may happen if you pick up a rat by the tip of it's tail.
What is degloving
In 1959 (zoologist) & (microbiologist) hoped to improve the quality of life for laboratory animals with the 3 R’s principle.
It's the name of the Zoologist?
What is William Russell
Rex Burch is the microbiologist.
It's the 3 key factors for personal protection from exposure to radioactivity.
1. Shielding - materials, such as lead aprons are used to protect the body from radiation.
2. Time - Radioactive exposure is cumulative, minimizing time spent near these materials is important.
3. Distance - radiation becomes weaker the further away from the source material. Staying as far away as possible helps reduce exposure.
It's the device that can be used to remove harmful microorganisms without manually scrubbing the walls. It may take more than one of these devices to decontaminate depending on the size of the room.
What is a Fogger
It is the light level most commonly used in animal rooms?
325 lux (30 foot-candles) about 1.0 meters above the floor
It's the name of the organ that mice have that rats do not
What is gallbladder