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Response to Protocol Review Scenario: Transferring animals responsibly

Lab Animal volume 38, pages 317–318 (2009)Cite this article

Although they don't specifically address this issue, regulations such as the US Government Principles for the Utilization and Care of Vertebrate Animals Used in Testing, Research and Training1 and the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals2 do stress the importance of using the minimum number of animals necessary to obtain valid experimental results. Any investigator who uses animals has a moral and regulatory imperative to be a good steward of animal resources and should plan studies accordingly to reduce unnecessary animal use.

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  1. Public Health Service. US Government Principles for the Utilization and Care of Vertebrate Animals Used in Testing, Research and Training. Policy No. 102.02. (US Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC, 2002).

  2. Institute for Laboratory Animal Research. Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals (National Academies Press, Washington, DC, 1996).

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  1. Heenan is Director and Keys is IACUC Manager and Grants Specialist, Office of Animal Care and Use, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC

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Heenan, T., Keys, M. Response to Protocol Review Scenario: Transferring animals responsibly. Lab Anim 38, 317–318 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/laban1009-317b

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