Biological indicators of animal welfare in rodents in the biological essay laboratory of the University of Costa Rica: Evaluation protocols
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2019
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Herrera Ruiz, Carolina
López Herrera, Michael
Chaves Hernández, Marcos Felipe
Reyes Moreno, Ledis
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Animal welfare can be affected by many factors that compromise both physical and
mental health, that is why the more objective relationships are provided, the greater
the likelihood of identifying the state of well-being of the animals. The purpose of this
paper was to provide a rapid assessment protocol for biological indicators of animal
welfare. The protocol was validated by two workers from the bioterium of the Biological
Essay Laboratory of the University of Costa Rica by applying it in two animal colonies:
female and male HSD:SD rats, and female and male HSD: IC mice. The evaluators
reported two types of affections such as the presence of hematoporphyrin in rats and
the presence of alopecia in mice. In both colonies, these results showed that there are
no differences with the proposed tool.
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ZOOLOGY, RESEARCH LABORATORIES