This course is a 3 credit discovery-based research tutorial experience emphasizing cellular and molecular approaches.

This course is an introduction to infectious diseases and immunity in the context of the basic mechanisms of the immune system. Topics include infectious organisms, infection and the immune response, and specific diseases of selected companion and production species. Principles of vaccination and preventative management are discussed.

This lab is taken concurrently with the lecture course ANIMLSCI 455V Laboratory Animal Medicine & Management. The lab covers learning and demonstrating hands-on the common technical procedures used in rats, mice, rabbits and other lab animals and the daily husbandry and care of the lab animal colony, including husbandry, feeding and health assessments.

This lab is taken concurrently with the lecture course ANIMLSCI 455V Laboratory Animal Medicine & Management. The lab covers learning and demonstrating hands-on the common technical procedures used in rats, mice, rabbits and other lab animals and the daily husbandry and care of the lab animal colony, including husbandry, feeding and health assessments.

This course, and concurrent registration in the associated lab course, ANIMLSCI 455VL, provides basic instruction in laboratory animal anatomy and physiology, restraint and handling, nutrition and management ? with emphasis on the laboratory rat, mouse, hamster, rabbit and gerbil. Lectures include material on principles of disease, research use and therapeutic techniques and well as regulations applicable to research facility operation.

Humane care, handling, and management of mice, rats, gerbils, hamsters, guinea pigs, rabbits, cats, dogs, and non-human primates used in research, nutrition, breeding, disease control, gnotobiology, anesthesiology, surgery, and necropsy.

Humane care, handling, and management of mice, rats, gerbils, hamsters, guinea pigs, rabbits, cats, dogs, and non-human primates used in research, nutrition, breeding, disease control, gnotobiology, anesthesiology, surgery, and necropsy.

Humane care, handling, and management of mice, rats, gerbils, hamsters, guinea pigs, rabbits, cats, dogs, and non-human primates used in research, nutrition, breeding, disease control, gnotobiology, anesthesiology, surgery, and necropsy.

This course covers the basic principles of pharmacology, including general drug types, dosage forms, drug administration, pharmacokinetics, and pharmacodynamics. Drug packaging, labeling, and dispensing are covered, as are record keeping for pharmacologic agents. The legal and ethical factors involved in handling pharmaceuticals are considered. Prescription notation and review of drug calculations are also included.

This is the laboratory component of ANIMLSCI 415. Students will learn clinical techniques including but not limited to venipuncture, intravenous catheterization, fluid therapy, clinical skills to assess the urinary system, bandaging, and electrocardiography.