title: Principles of care and management in a laboratory animal facility.
abstract: The keeping of animals in an enclosed area and their use for scientific work goes back to the beginning of the Christian era. This activity gradually developed into the specific science we know today. Principles of housing, animal care, equipment and management according to which, it is felt a modern animal facility should be designed, equipped and operated, are discussed.
mesh_terms: D000822:Animal Husbandry / Q000592:standards*; D000818:Animals; D000830:Animals, Laboratory; D006799:Housing, Animal