Animal handling

After an antibiotic was selected, the primary concern should be to optimize the dosage for maximal efficacy and minimal toxicity. Other factors such as economics, frequency of animal handling and... 

Identification other than a cage card is not required for short-term studies in which an animal is never taken from and returned to its cage during the course of a study. The preamble (TJ 35) to the GLP revisions of 1987 (4) also indicates that when animals are housed individually in cages, cage card plus detailed animal-handling SOPs designed to prevent animal mix-ups will constitute an adequate animal identification system. 

Temple Grandin provided a new way to understand the behavior of livestock animals. Born with autism, Grandin nsed her different perspective to develop insight into animal behavior. She has since become the leading expert on animal handling and production facilities. 

Food workers are also exposed to animal products (Table 5). Not only raw meat (beef [95-97], chicken [98, 99], lamb [12], pork [86]), but any other part of the animal handled, such as skin (chicken [99], turkey [12]), liver (chicken [100], calf [101], pork [98]), gut (pig [101]) and blood (cow, pig [102]), (Table 2) have been found to cause contact urticaria or PCD. Animal derivatives such as milk [103,104], cheese [105,106] or [39, 43, 67], as well as fish [107-109] and other seafood [30, 110, 111] have also been responsible for immediate contact reactions. The exposed workers are... 

This chapter outlines strategies and methods that are usefiil for producing antibodies against Drosophila antigens. Excellent references on specific techniques for antibody production, such as that by Harlow and Lane (1988), as well as university and commercial facilities that provide animal handling services, are available to most investigators. Therefore, this chapter will not attempt to provide an exhaustive manual of all techniques necessary for the production of antibodies, but rather will provide strategies and techniques that should be of particular use to Drosophila researchers. 

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