PHR 408 Behavior, Biology and Welfare of Mice

INFORMATIONAL RESOURCES

Dr. Lynette Hart

University of California Center for Animal Alternatives, homepage
http://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/Animal_Alternatives/main.htm

Non-invasive imaging: Practical approaches for the 3Rs
http://lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/animalalternatives/imaging.php

Laboratory Animal Welfare: Human-Animal Interactions in the Laboratory Setting
http://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/Animal_Alternatives/LabHAI.html

Readings and resources on humane endpoints
http://lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/animalalternatives/endpoints.php

The mouse in science
http://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/Animal_Alternatives/mouse.htm

Readings and resources on monoclonal antibodies
http://lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/animalalternatives/monoclonal.php

Environmental enrichment: rodents
http://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/Animal_Alternatives/enrich.htm#rodents

Mouse Biology Program
http://mbp.compmed.ucdavis.edu/

SVM Web Search

Relevant links

Jackson Laboratory

JAX Research Models
http://jaxmice.jax.org/models/index.html

Phenotypes and alleles - Mouse models for human disease
http://www.informatics.jax.org/searches/allele_form.shtml

Mouse geneome informatics
http://www.informatics.jax.org/

Inbred strains of mice and rats
http://www.informatics.jax.org/external/festing/search_form.cgi

International Mouse Strain Resource (IMSR)
http://www.informatics.jax.org/imsr/index.jsp

Mouse genetics : Concepts and applications
Lee M. Silver, Oxford Press, 1995
http://www.informatics.jax.org/silver/

Mouse nomenclature homepage
http://www.informatics.jax.org/mgihome/nomen/

Mouse phenome database
http://phenome.jax.org/pub-cgi/phenome/mpdcgi?rtn=docs/home

Comfortable Quarters for Mice in Research Institutions
http://www.awionline.org/pubs/cq02/Cq-mice.html

The Mouse Brain Library
http://www.mbl.org/

Rat Resource and Research Center
http://www.nrrrc.missouri.edu/

Ratmap: the rat genome database
http://ratmap.gen.gu.se/

Whole mouse catalog
http://www.rodentia.com/wmc/

Refinement and reduction in production of genetically modified mice
Sixth report of BVAAWF/FRAME/RSPCA/UFAW Joint Working
Group on Refinement
Laboratory Animals, Volume 37 Number 3 Supplement July 2003
http://rsm.publisher.ingentaconnect.com/content/rsm/lab/2003/
00000037/b10303s1;jsessionid=1c92vgmrzgcvb.henrietta

NIH Knockout Mouse Project KOMP
http://www.nih.gov/science/models/mouse/knockout/

AWIC Research Animals Rodents

GoogleScholar

Related Links

The Shape of Enrichment
http://www.enrichment.org/

PHS and Euthanasia
http://grants2.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-02-062.html

Blood collection using the saphenous vein
http://www.uib.no/vivariet/mou_blood/Blood_coll_mice_.html

Submandibular bleeding
http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/pr/2005/050921.htm

USDA APHIS
http://www.aphis.usda.gov/animal_welfare/policy.shtml

Examples of Topics and Searches

List of relevant UCD bibliographic databases

laboratory environment, enrichment
Agricola
preferences
caging
environment and behavior
nesting preferences
mice and environment* and enrich*

PubMed
environmental enrichment AND mice

AWI

omega-3 fatty acid, brain development, behavior
PubMed
omega-3 AND dietary AND cognit*
omega-3 AND mice AND (brain OR cogni* OR mental)

Biosis, PsycInfo

MMTV mouse mammary tumor virus, transgenic mice
PubMed

MMHCC Mouse Models Human Cancers Consortium, Mouse Repository

EMice - NCI

JAX Research Models - Cancer

poliovirus, vaccine development, transgenic mice
PubMed
mice AND polio* AND vaccine

Polio.researchtoday

leishmaniasis
PubMed
MGI

human deafness
PubMed
Search mice AND deafness Field: MeSH Major Topic
Search mice AND deafness Field: MeSH Terms
Search mice AND deafness

hepatitis - mouse strain
JAX: Inbred strains of mice and rats
Inbred Strains Search: hepatitis
Mouse Strains A  BALB  C3H  C57BL  NZB

mice and HIV
MGI search on left margin frame, type: HIV, select: all sections
phenotypic alleles, allele, gives you strain of origin
also, rat information under Rat Strains

psychological/psychiatric disorders, anxiety, depression
PsycInfo
TI=(mice and anxiety) 
TI=(mice and depression) 
KW=(mice and depression)
KW=(mice AND anxiety)

ocd and mice
Psycinfo
ocd and mice

obesity studies
Biosis
obesity and mice title
obesity and mice and diet title

oxytocin and social behavior
Biosis
oxytocin and behavior and mice
Pubmed
ditto 

neurological disorders, alzheimers, parkinsons
Toxline and Toxnet
toxline parkinsons AND ( mice )
toxline alzheimer AND ( mice )

NHPstudy.com
Academy of Medical Sciences / Medical Research Council / Royal Society / Wellcome Trust
Study into the use of non-human primates (NHP) in research
Update 12 December 2006

Nature.com
Special - Animal Resarch
13 December 2006

Ethics of Research involving Animals
Nuffield Council on Bioethics
26 April 2006