Welfare Assessment of Laboratory Animals
A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2017) | Viewed by 6757
Special Issue Editor
Interests: animal welfare; mouse; rat; psychophysiology; affective states; laboratory animal
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The study of animal welfare is an expanding field that includes researchers from many disciplines evaluating the complexity of the whole animal. In the specialty of laboratory animal medicine and science, there is a pronounced need for more evidence based knowledge to ensure that interventions that are utilized to improve animal well-being are having the desired effect. When interventions result in a negative response in the animal, this is generally easily identified, but neutral and positive responses are not well characterized. As neutral responses can result in a waste of limited resources that could be deployed for more effective interventions, this identification is critical.
Therefore, additional studies which focus on obtaining data that incorporates an evaluation of the clinical health, behavioral responses, and affective state should be emphasized as these result in mechanisms to evaluate the whole animal.
Original papers from research areas, such as ethology, animal science, veterinary medicine, psychology and psychiatry are invited to contribute to this Special Issue about laboratory animal welfare, especially controlled interdisciplinary studies about (1) quantitative measures of human-animal interactions and acute responses to the animal during interventions, (2) the relationship between acute responses and long-term effects, and (3) whole animal assessment of animal welfare (clinical health, behavioral responses, and affective state).
Dr. Debra Hickman
Guest Editor
Manuscript Submission Information
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