title: Report of the 2006 RSPCA/UFAW Rodent Welfare Group meeting.
abstract: The RSPCA/UFAW Rodent Welfare Group holds a one-day meeting every autumn to discuss current welfare research and to exchange views on rodent welfare issues. A key aim of the group is to encourage people to think about the lifetime experience of laboratory rodents, ensuring that every potential influence on their well-being has been reviewed and refined. Speakers at the 2006 meeting presented preliminary findings of ongoing studies and discussed regulatory updates. Topics included the housing and husbandry of mice and rats, refining the use of rodents in asthma research, good practice for the euthanasia of rodents using carbon dioxide and achieving reduction by sharing genetically modified mice.
authors.affiliation: Research Animals Department, Science Group, RSPCA, Wilberforce Way, Southwater, West Sussex RH13 9RS, UK.
authors.forename: Barney
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Reed
authors.forename: Penny
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Hawkins
authors.forename: Naomi
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Latham
authors.forename: Kerry
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Westwood
authors.forename: Katja
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: van Driel
authors.forename: Cliff
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Battram
authors.forename: Huw
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Golledge
authors.forename: Anne-Marie
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Farmer
authors.forename: Nikki
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Osborne
authors.forename: Maggy
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Jennings
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Hubrecht
mesh_terms: D032761:Animal Experimentation / Q000592:standards; D000822:Animal Husbandry / Q000592:standards; D000827:Animal Welfare / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000592:standards*; D000818:Animals; D000830:Animals, Laboratory; D037901:Euthanasia, Animal / Q000379:methods; D006799:Housing, Animal / Q000592:standards; D051379:Mice; D051381:Rats