Guidelines on the recognition of pain, distress and discomfort in experimental animals and an hypothesis for assessment.

摘要: Under the 1876 Cruelty to Animals Act it is necessary recognise pain so that an assessment may be made determine if 'an experiment calculated give pain' and 'to prevent animal feeling pain'. conditions of licence also 'severe which likely endure' 'suffering considerable In White Paper May 1983 (Command 8883) stated that: 'in application controls concept should applied in a wide sense' 'the Home Secretary's practice has been interpret include disease, other disturbances normal health, adverse change physiology, discomfort distress'. The draft European Convention for Protection Vertebrate used Experimental Purposes, aims control, subject specific exceptions, any experimental or scientific procedure 'may cause pain, suffering, distress lasting harm'. (The states UK control will stricter than Council Europe proposals.) Thus, there onus on experimenter (not define it) alleviate it. It intended this article help, not only newcomers inexperienced recognition but possibly those relatively experienced workers who called upon evaluate involved new model individual animal.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)