1995 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Int.standarization of housing & caging for exper.animals
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07041158
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for international Scientific Research
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | Field Research |
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| Research Institution | Niigata University |
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Principal Investigator |
SATO Norimitsu l. Niigata Univ., Sch.of Med.Associate professor, 医学部, 助教授 (00111716)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
ITO Isao Lab.Anim.Center, Chiba Univ.Sch.of Med.Associate professor, 医学部, 助教授 (10012030)
URANO Toru Lab.Anim.Res.Center, Kumamoto Univ.Sch.of Med.Associate professor, 医学部, 助教授 (90101899)
OWADA Kazuo Lab.Anim.Center, Yamagata Univ.Sch.of Med.Associate professor, 医学部, 助教授 (60101010)
YAGISAWA Makoto Inst.of Animal Exper. Hirosaki Univ.Sch.of Med.Associate professor, 医学部, 助教授 (70003556)
MIURA Toyokiko Inst.of Anim.Gunma Univ.Sch.of Med.Associate professor, 医学部, 助教授 (90060508)
MATSUBAYASHI Kiyoaki Primate Res.Inst.Kyoto Univ.Associate professor, 霊長研, 助教授 (50027497)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1995
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| Keywords | Housing for Exp.Anim. / Equipments for Animal Care / Cage Size / Animal Housbandry |
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| Research Abstract |
By the present studies, we made 4BS formula for determining appropriate cage size for experimental animals (Concerning non-human primates, 4BS formula is not practicable and cage sizes were caracterized by their postures and behavior). We translated the summerized manuscript into English and asked reviewing it to experts in USA, Canada (CA), EC (European Community) and United Kingdom. Cage sizes for mice, rats, guinea pigs, rabbit, dogs, cats and farm animals determined by 4BS formula and that for non-human primates are fortunately in much conformity with American and European standards.
The present status of USA, EC, Canada and UK, however, improvement of psycological factors, such as environment enrichment, behavioral enrichment or socialization (groop housing) are remarkably considered in the fields of animal experimentation. They give a hiding (resting) place and toys to experimetal animals. Since we feel it very difficult to evaluate the efficiency of the pscycological factors, we only commented about it in our manuscript.
We will finally propose the present work to Japanese society, initially to Association of Animal Experimentation Facilities of National University and Japanese Association for Laboratory Animal Science. We convince that we can have a better interrelation with American and European community of scientific collaboration by the enforcement of the present work.
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Research Products
(4 results)
