AWB recommendations and guidelines

Together with expert competencies from Karolinska Institutet and other universities and institutions in Sweden we establish recommendations and guidelines for housing and care of research animals. Below you find our current recommendations for downloading. All recommendations are available in both Swedish and English.

General recommendations for all research animals

The PREPARE and ARRIVE guidelines and EDA tool for planning and reporting animal experiments
Recommendation #8; Acclimatisation of animals after transport to KM animal facilities
Additional information, recommendations and guidelines are available at the Swedish 3R center

Recommendations for mice and rats

Recommendation #1; Inducing experimental SLE
Recommendation #2; Tagging and genotyping of small rodents
Recommendation #4; Handling mice in experimental research
Recommendation #5; Health protocol during streptozotocin treatment of mice and rats
Recommendation #6; Health protocol for assessment on weaning of mice and rats
Recommendation #7; Assessment guidelines for arthritis models in mice
Recommendation #10; Breeding and maintenance for mouse
Recommendation #12 - on using both sexes in experiments

Recommendations for aquatic species

Recommendation #11: Breeding and maintenance for zebrafish

Recommendations for planning of animal experiments and journal keeping

Recommendation #9; Assessment of severity level in research animals
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Content reviewer:
Lars Bräutigam
Komparativ Medicin
27-09-2024