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.

Links

Additional information, recommendations and guidelines are available at the Swedish 3R center

Recommendations for mice and rats

Recommendation #1: Inducing experimental SLE (även på svenska) (PDF, 366.74 KB)

Recommendation #2: Tagging and genotyping of small rodents (även på svenska) (PDF, 765.65 KB)

Recommendation #4: Handling mice in experimental research (även på svenska) (PDF, 149.17 KB)

Recommendation #5: Health protocol during streptozotocin treatment of mice and rats (även på svenska) (PDF, 188.39 KB)

Recommendation #6: Health protocol for assessment on weaning of mice and rats (även på svenska) (PDF, 60.53 KB)

Recommendation #7: Assessment guidelines for arthritis models in mice (även på svenska) (PDF, 266.96 KB)

AWB Recommendation #10: Breeding and maintenances for mouse (även på svenska) (PDF, 152.09 KB)

Recommendation #12: On using both sexes in experiments (PDF, 159.49 KB)

Recommendations for aquatic species

Recommendation #11: Breeding and maintenance for zebrafish (PDF, 127.93 KB)

Recommendations for planning of animal experiments and journal keeping

Recommendation #9: Assessment of severity level in research animals (även på svenska) (PDF, 221.57 KB)

Recommendation #13: Laboratory animal journals in tick@lab (PDF, 242.89 KB)