Compendia in Laboratory Animal Science
The Laboratory Animal Unit at the Norwegian School of Veterinary Science (now part of the Norwegian University of Life Sciences) produced a 200-page compendium in laboratory animal science, in Norwegian and English versions. Topics covered included legislation, ethics, comparative biology, genetics, diseases and health monitoring, the influence of environmental factors, anaesthesia, analgesia and euthanasia, design of animal experiments and alternative methods.
The Unit also produced a Norwegian-language compendium in Laboratory Animal Science for Fish Researchers in Norwegian in 1999. The compendium was translated into English and large parts of it were updated in 2010-11, with funding provided by Norecopa.
Much of the information in these compendia has been updated and incorporated into the text here on Norecopa's website. In particular, please see the PREPARE guidelines for planning animal research and testing. We also recommend use of the menus at the top of each webpage.
For copyright reasons they are not available in electronic form.
Laboratory Animal Science
Editors: Annelise Hem, Dag Marcus Eide, Espen Engh & Adrian Smith
January 2001, ISBN 82-7725-117-3. The paper version was partly revised in September 2010.
Forsøksdyrlære
Redaktører: Annelise Hem, Dag Marcus Eide, Espen Engh & Adrian Smith
januar 2001, med mindre revisjoner i september 2010.
Forsøksdyrlære for fiskeforskere
Redaktør Trond Brattelid
oktober 1999, ISBN 82-7725-116-5
Compendium in Laboratory Animal Science for Fish Researchers
Editors: Trond Brattelid & Adrian Smith
June 2011
There are now a number of textbooks which serve as good introductions to Laboratory Animal Science. These include:
- Handbook of Laboratory Animal Science, 4th Edition (Hau & Shapiro, 2021)
- Essentials of Laboratory Animal Science: Principles and Practices (Nagarajan, Gudde & Srinivasan, 2021)
- Animal-Centric Care and Management: Enhancing Refinement in Biomedical Research (Sørensen, Cloutier & Gaskill, 2020)
- Introduction to Laboratory Animal Science, Technology and Welfare, 3rd Edition (Barnett, 2016)
- Principles of Laboratory Animal Science (van Zutphen, 2001)
For more textbooks and literature, please see the TextBase database.
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