| Department of Veterinary Pathobiology | |||||||||||||
| Earliest Possible Year | Post experience Master´s Programme | ||||||||||||
| Duration | Outside schedule | ||||||||||||
| Credits | 6 (ECTS) | ||||||||||||
| Course Level | Post experience masters programme Module 2, Master Programme in Laboratory Animal Science | ||||||||||||
| Examination | Final Examination oral examination All aids allowed Description of Examination: 48 hours before the examination all examinant get 8 subjects. Each participant prepare a 15 minute lecture on each of the subjects and will draw one subject to present on the examination day. 7-point scale, external examiner | ||||||||||||
| Organisation of Teaching | |||||||||||||
| Teaching Language | English | ||||||||||||
| Course Objectives | |||||||||||||
| The participant will after the course fulfill qualifications within laboratory animal maintenance, breeding, biology and genetics needed for qualification within animal experimentation on FELASA catgory D level | |||||||||||||
| Course Contents | |||||||||||||
| Laboratory animal genetics including gene modification and cloning; housing, economics and staff organisation in the lab animal facility; basic ethology, behaviour, learning and cognition of laboratory animals. | |||||||||||||
| Teaching And Learning Methods | |||||||||||||
| Lectures, practical and theoretical exercises | |||||||||||||
| Learning Outcome | |||||||||||||
| The participant will understand principles for breeding and generating laboratory animals, including genetically modified animals, will have a knowledge of their housing and maintenance, and will be able to reflect over the construction of an animal facility. | |||||||||||||
| Course Litterature | |||||||||||||
| The UFAW Handbook on the Care and Mangement of Laboratory Animals, Volume 1, Blackwell Science, 1999.Pp 1-134, 141-188, 262-658, 677-696 Committee on Rodents, Institutes of Laboratory Animal Resources: Nutrient Requirements of Laboratory Animals, Fourth Revised Edition, 1995 Pp 1-143 Mouse embryonic development: genex.hgu.mrc.ac.uk/CDROM_online/ Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals, Institute of Laboratory Animal Resources, Commission on Life Sciences, National Research Council, National Academy Press,Washington, D.C. 1996 Rules for Nomenclature of Mouse and Rat Strains Committee on Rodents, Institutes of Laboratory Animal Resources: Rodents, National Research Council, 1996 Houdebine LM: Animal Transgenesis and Cloning, Wiley 2001 Entire book. Crawley JN: What´s wrong with my mouse? Wiley-Liss, 2000. Chapters 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 & 10. Silverman J: Managing the Laboratory Animal Facility, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 2002, Entire book | |||||||||||||
| Course Coordinator | |||||||||||||
| Dorte Bratbo Sørensen, dobj@life.ku.dk, Department of Disease Biology/Section for Biomedicine, Phone: 35332724 | |||||||||||||
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