Remembrance for the Animals Used In the Labs at The Ohio State University
Seven Thousand Nine Hundred Eighty Five (7,985) rats
Reported by OSU University Laboratory Animal Resources 2002
USDA/APHIS does not require reporting these animals
19,654 rats were approved for use in new protocols in 2003
Spinal Cord Injury Techniques Course
Approved by the OSU Institutional Laboratory Animal Care and Use Committee
(ILACUC)
"The proposed course is designed to meet specific needs for animal modeling in the field of spinal cord injury (SCI) research. The instructional activity will allow an intensive consideration for issues related to animal care, surgical procedures, injury procedures and an examination of the physiological sequelae that occur after spinal cord injury in animals."
This course has been described as teaching animal torture. What other word can be used to describe a class which has as one of its goals that the student will acquire the motor skills required to injure appropriate subsets of SCI animals.
The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) is funding this course at OSU. The curriculum to be taught annually for 5 years will use animals in experimental SCI research. OSU might have been chosen as investigators have been breaking the backs of animals for atleast the last 18-20 years. One hundred ninety-one (191) rats will be used in these classes.
The course will also be available to students at the Reeve-Irvine Research Center University of California July 5-23 2004. OSU investigators will participate in teaching this course.
And who would have thought there were so many ways to injury the spinal cord of animals: