Overview
This course consists of a five-day hands-on experience. The course will include lectures, demonstrations, and hands-on laboratory exercises.
Tentative Schedule of Events
Day 1
Lecture: Principles of animal handling and small-animal surgery
Laboratory: Animal facility tours; procedures for handling mice
Day 2
Laboratory: Procedures for handling rats; advanced surgical techniques: jugular vein cannulation, femoral vein cannulation, minipumps
Day 3
Laboratory: Large animal dissection (pig); urine/feces collection; kidney perfusion; liver perfusion
Day 4
Lecture: Primate models
Laboratory: Microdialysis; brain perfusion; in situ intestinal loop
Day 5
Lecture: Canine models
Laboratory: Medium animal handling (dog, rabbit); large animal handling (horse)