Part 1: Principles of safer handling and physical restraint. Safer animal handling and physical restraint -- Animal behavior -- Part 2: Household and laboratory animals. Containments for household, ...

General concepts -- Introduction -- Tools of restraint -- Rope work -- Chemical restraint -- Stress -- Thermoregulation -- Medical problems during restraint ...

Animal model experiments have an essential place in the infrastructure of biomedical science. The literature is replete with papers studying various physiological and organ systems in which animals ...

Mouse handling and restraint affect behavior, physiology, and animal welfare, yet little information is available on how various mouse restraint methods affect cardiovascular parameters. We validated ...

There is increasing evidence that, compared to non-aversive handling methods (i.e., tunnel and cupping), tail handling has a negative impact on mouse welfare. Despite this evidence, there are still ...

A central feature in our lives with companion animals is the use of force. Instances of physical restraint in the home are ubiquitous. We hold our animals still so often that we might not even be ...

For experiments requiring repeated venipuncture or prolonged intravenous infusion or sampling techniques, the ferret can serve successfully as a surrogate nonrodent animal model. Because experimental ...