Standard Operating Procedures for Animal Use

The following appendices provide essential information with regard to the use of animals:

• Appendix I - USDA Policy #11: Painful Procedures
• Appendix II - USDA Policy #12: Written Narrative for Alternatives to Painful Procedures
• Appendix III - Standard Operating Procedures

Please see table below for individual components of the Standard Operating Procedures. The following procedures are listed in the Approval application under the section Experimental Procedures and Monitoring. If your research includes any of the following procedures, please review the information before you begin research activities.

	Standard Operating Procedures
	Blood Sampling of Rodents
	Calorimetry Measurements in Rats and Mice
	Collection of Oocytes from Frogs
	Embryo Use
	Gonadectomy in Rats and Mice
	Guidelines for Working with Animals in Stony Brook University Laboratories
	Guidelines for Rodent Survival Surgery
	Image or Sound Recordings of Laboratory Animals
	Implantation Of Drug Delivery Systems In Rodents
	In Vivo Micro CT (uCT) of Rodents
	Monoclonal Antibody Production in Laboratory Animals
	Polyclonal antibody production in Lab Animals - Use of Freund's Adjuvant
	Preclinical MRI in Mice and Rats
	Production of Subcutaneous Tumors in Rodents
	Protocol for Vascular Perfusion Fixation
	Standard Inveon Imaging of Rats and Mice
	Standard Ultrasound Imaging of Rats and Mice
	Surgery and Anesthetic Recovery Record
	Tail Biopsies
	Telemetry Unit Implantation in Rodents