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The course will provide didactic and hands on training in the use of laboratory animals. The lectures will include: legislation, ethics, handling and husbandry of common laboratory animals, diseases and disease prevention, basic concept of laboratory animal breeding and genetics, anesthesia, analgesia and euthanasia of laboratory animals, basic surgical techniques. Research planning, animal models and humane endpoints as well as allergy to laboratory animals and other occupational hazards working with laboratory animals will be covered. |