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The CCAC highly recommends the use of the following key words.
Please select from among these key words those that best describe general procedures, agents used and types of surgery performed (use as many key words as appropriate). If these key words do not adequately describe your work, please supply additional words.
General
research, teaching, testing;
regulation (are the experiments performed directly in relation to testing regulations in force in Canada and/or the US (FDA, EPA, etc.) and/or elsewhere, type of testing (e.g., cosmetic testing);
field work, behavior observation, environmental protection study, fauna conservation;
development of techniques, study of the effectiveness of a product (drugs, others) or a method (spectroscopy, others);
breeding, breeding colony, sentinel program;
antibody production (monoclonal, polyclonal);
pilot study;
palatability test, digestibility test, reinforcement/motivation, staged behavioral encounters;
primary cell culture, tissue/organ collection, graft, transplant;
species, transgenic animal;
validation of non-animal model (in vitro test, computational methods...).
Procedures
trapping/netting, marking/tagging, injection (intravenous, subcutaneous, intramuscular, intraperitoneal), blood sampling/testing (small volume), blood removal (large volume), gavaging, physical restraint, infection induction, whole-body radiation, physical euthanasia, food deprivation, water deprivation, special diet, altered environmental exposure, physical restraint (duration).
Agents
radioisotope administration, chemical exposure, infectious agents, immunogenic or inflammatory agents, Freund's complete adjuvant, Freund's incomplete adjuvant.
Surgery
major surgery, minor surgery, stereotaxic surgery, survival surgery, multiple surgeries, cannulation.
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