MODULE 1: INTRODUCTION TO LAB.AN.

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Refers to the scientific study of animals, usually in the laboratory, for the purpose of gaining new biological knowledge or solving medical problems

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Animal experimentation

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Application of veterinary medicine and animal science to the acquisition of laboratory animals and to their management

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Laboratory animal care

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Specialty field within veterinary medicine that is concerned with the diagnosis, treatment, and disease prevention in animals

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Laboratory animal medicine

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Study of nature, cause and cure of abnormal structure and function in people, animals and plants

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Comparative medicine

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Body of scientific and technical information that bears on both laboratory animal care and medicine

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Laboratory animal science

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Group of animals constantly used in laboratories for general research

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Laboratory animals

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• Founder of biology
• First to conduct disections that revealed internal differences among animals

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Aristotle

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• First to perform experiments on living animals
• Established in pigs that the trachea was an air tube and the lungs were pneumatic organs

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Erasistratus

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Perform anatomical dissection of pigs and monkeys

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Galen

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Founder of modern anatomy

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Andreas Vesalius

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Movement of the heart and blood in animals

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Sir William Harvey

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Reported the first measurement of bp. using a horse

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Stephen Hales

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Studied infectious disease in a variety of animals:
Silkworms = pebrine
Sheep = anthrax
Dogs = rabies

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Louis Pasteur

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Demonstrated the role of arthropod vectors in disease transmission

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Cooper Curtice
Theobald Smith

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Established in 1998, geared towards the development and advancement of laboratory animal science in the Philippines

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Philippine Association for Laboratory Animal Sciance (PALAS)

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Research facilities must be appointed in accordance with the AWA.

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Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee

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Responsible for the implementation of the Animal Welfare Act (RA 8485)

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Bureau of Animal Industry - Animal Health and Welfare Division

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Characteristics of a mammal

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1. Presence of mammary glands
2. Presence of hair
3. Have well-developed dentition

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Functions for thermoregulation, camouflage, defensive structures, etc.

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Pelage

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Numerous nerve endings:
- Underhairs
- Guardhairs

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Vibrissae

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Teeth exhibits different types and shapes

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Heterodont

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Teeth are fixed in sockets

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Thecodont

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Single cusp teeth such as incisor and canine

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Incisiform

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multiple cusps such as molars and premolars

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Molariform

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**two sets of teeth** during a **lifetime**

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Diphyodont

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**stops growing** after eruption

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Brachydont

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**Continuous growth** even after eruption

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Hypsodont

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Types of Locomotory Adaptations *Terrestrial*

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1. Ambulatory 2. Cursorial 3. Saltatorial 4. Graviportal

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Walking

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Ambulatory

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Running

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Cursorial

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Leaping Springing Ricochet

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Saltatorial

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Columnar limbs

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Graviportal

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Types of Locomotory Adaptations *Fossarial* - lives underground

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1. Subfossarial 2. Semifossarial

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**Seldom** moves about on the surface

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Subfossarial

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Spends **more time** moving about on the surface

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Semifossarial

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Types of Locomotory Adaptations *Arboreal*

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1. Scansorial 2. Arboreal 3. Brachiating 4. Quadrupedal

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**Climbs/scampers** up and down vertical surfaces

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Scansorial

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Move among trees

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Arboreal

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**swing** on trees with **hands**

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Brachiating

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Walks in **upside down** position

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Quadrupedal

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**gliding** in air from tree to tree

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Volant

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Forelimbs **modified** into wings

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True flight

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Feeding habits:

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1. Herbivorous 2. Carnivorous 3. Omnivorous

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Types of Herbivorous feeding:

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1. Folivorous 2. Frugivorous 3. Nectarivorous

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Types of Carnivorous feeding:

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1. Insectivorous 2. Piscivorous 3. Myrmecophagous 4. Sanguivorous 5. Plankton feeders

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Methods of Reproduction:

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1. Prototherians 2. Metatherians 3. Eutherians

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Lay eggs (oviparous)

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Prototherians

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Give birth to **partly-developed** embryos that complete their development in the **marsupium pouch**

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Metatherians

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Possess a placenta

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Eutherians

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Born at a very early stage of development, eyes closed, no hairs, no dentary-squamosal joint.

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Altricial offspring

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Open eyes in 1 or 2 days and are capable of getting up and walking around shortly after birth

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Precocial young