By Wendy R. Carpenter
With current recognition of the rights of animals and our re- sponsibility for their welfare, it has become imperative that those working with animals in teach- ing and research find alternatives that reduce the necessity of us- ing animals. This was the topic of a seminar held Nov.11-13 enti- tled “Alternatives to Live Teach- ers and Guinea Pigs” held at AVC by the APICS Council for Animal Care. Dr. J. Amend opened the seminar at a public lecture Fri- day evening. In the past, many experiments were done with ani- mals which would not be consid- ered acceptable today. In some of those cases there were no alterna- tives but today there are choices and better alternatives.
Alternatives fall into two cat- egories: limitation and elimina- tion. The use of animals for teaching purposes can be reduced by the development of media and demonstrations which will re- place the presence of live animals. However, this still requires the necessity of using a few animals for their development. The use of animals can also be reduced in
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research. Graduate students at several schools are now receiving special training in the care of an- imals and ways to limit their use. The number of these programs is gradually expanding with one of the best being at the Univer- sity of Saskatchewan. Tissue cul- ture is also reducing the number of animals needed in experimen- tation. There are training courses available in this technique as well. Artificial biology such as build- ing biochemical membranes is ex- panding. One of the most pop- ular methods of decreasing ani- mal use in the lab is the com- puter simulation. There are a va- riety of these available which can be fixed or can be manipulated by the operator. The quality of these simulations can vary depending on how much is known about the system which is being simulated and how much you can feed the computer. Obviously, a simula- tion is only valuable if it correctly imitates the natural system. Sev- eral good programs are already available in this respect for phys- iology such as those that describe the electrophysiology of the heart
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The seminar was attended by researchers and technicians from all four Atlantic provinces. They were introduced to several of these alternatives, mostly involv- ing computer simulations, and
had an opportunity to try them out for themselves. There is a great deal of interest in using these new teaching methods and their use will be increasing in both teaching and research insti- tutions in the future. 5
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