| Responsible Department | Department of Veterinary Disease Biology | ||||||||||||
| Earliest Possible Year | Post experience Master´s Programme | ||||||||||||
| Duration | Outside schedule | ||||||||||||
| Credits | 6 (ECTS) | ||||||||||||
| Level of Course | Post experience masters programme | ||||||||||||
| Examination | Final Examination oral examination All aids allowed Description of Examination: 48 hours before the examination all examinant get 8 subjects. Each participant prepare a 15 minute lecture on each of the subjects and will draw one subject to present on the examination day. 7-point scale, external examiner | ||||||||||||
| Block Placement | Outside schedule Week Structure: Outside schedule, Autumn 2011 | ||||||||||||
| Language of Instruction | English | ||||||||||||
| Course Content | |||||||||||||
| Laboratory animal genetics including gene modification and cloning; housing, economics and staff organisation in the lab animal facility; basic ethology, behaviour, learning and cognition of laboratory animals | |||||||||||||
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| Lectures, practical and theoretical exercises | |||||||||||||
| Learning Outcome | |||||||||||||
| The course covers laboratory animal mainatenance, breeding and biology needed for qualification within animal experimentation on FELASA category D level Having finished the course the student will have the following: Knowledge The student knows - principles of laboratory animal maintenance, breeding, biology and genetics needed for qualification within animal experimentation on FELASA catgory D level - techniques used for producing gene modified animals - basic biology and behaviour of common laboratory rodents Skills The student can - plan and run facilities for animal experimentation Competencies The student can -take responsibility for housing, feeding and breeding laboratory animals | |||||||||||||
| Course Literature | |||||||||||||
| Mouse embryonic development: http://genex.hgu.mrc.ac.uk/CDROM_online/ Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals, Institute of Laboratory Animal Resources, Commission on Life Sciences, National Research Council, National Academy Press,Washington, D.C. 1996 http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/labrats/contents.html Rules for Nomenclature of Mouse and Rat Strains http://www.informatics.jax.org/mgihome/nomen/strains.shtml Hedrich HJ & Bullock G: The Laboratory Mouse, Elsevier/Academic Press, 2004/2006, chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 11, 18, 24, 25, 26, 28 Suckow MA, Weisbroth S, Franklin CL: The Laboratory Rat, Second Edition, Elsevier/Academic Press, 2005, chapters 8, 9, 10, 17, 22, 28, 29 Fox J, Anderson LC, Loew FM, Quimby FW: Laboratory Animal Medicine, Academic Press 2002, chapters 3, 4, 6, 9, 15, 21, 22, 24, 27, 28 | |||||||||||||
| Course Coordinator | |||||||||||||
| Dorte Bratbo Sørensen, dobj@life.ku.dk, Department of Veterinary Disease Biology/Section for Biomedicine, Phone: 353-32724 | |||||||||||||
| Course Fee | |||||||||||||
| DKK 15253,- | |||||||||||||
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