Core Protocols

The Behavioral Core Facility maintains core animal protocols. We are also happy to provide help to Users wishing to ammend their own protocols.

To ammend your existing protocol to include new behavioral tasks

• Provide a justification for the procedure based on your hypothesis and data.
• Briefly describe the procedure. The core can provide you with such summaries
• Reference the Behavioral Core Animal Protocol (details provided upon request)

Approval of ammendments to this existing core protocols, such as adding staff or prodecures generally takes 1-2 months.

Please Note

Core Users who avail themselves of the core facilities based on a fee structure for unassisted use should ensure that their own protocols are valid and up-to-date.

Users who have not been trained by Core staff can not be added to Core Animal Protocols

All personnel using the Core facilites must be properly trained and covered under a valid animal protocol. Core users must comply with the standars imposed by the Institute for Animal Sciences and the Guidelines for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals.

Policy Statement on Pain and Distress in Laboratory Animals

Recognizing Pain and Distress

Procedures expected to cause more than slight momentary pain require the appropriate use of analgesic measures

Procedures expected to cause distress should be minimized or avoided.

Animal numbers should be reduced wherever possible.

The Core is committed to the use of assays that are minimally distressing to the animals,

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Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Dept. of Neuroscience

Kennedy Center Core Facilities

Animal Institute

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