Animal Welfare, Ethics and the 3Rs: Training materials and resources is a collection of resources and teaching materials for providing education and training in topics including: ethical review processes, animal welfare, application of the 3Rs, public engagement. Individual resources include both student and tutor notes.
Animal Welfare Bodies and National Committees provides guidance on how to set up an effective animal welfare or ethical review committee.
Zebrafish in the Classroom is a comprehensive resource to facilitate the use of Zebrafish in student education.
The zebrafish brain in research and teaching: a simple in vivo and in vitro model for the study of spontaneous neural activity describes a series of laboratory practicals in which students prepare whole brain, brain slice, and immobilized non-anesthetised larval zebrafish preparations and undertake electrophysiological recordings from these preparations.
Laboratory experience for teaching sensory physiology describes a laboratory practical which enables students to analyse and quantify the effects of vibrissal stimulation on multi-fibre activity in the infraorbital nerve in anaesthetised rats.
Renal response to volume expansion describes a laboratory practical which enables students to investigate the renal response to volume expansion in anaesthetised rats.
An Undergraduate Laboratory Exercise Examining the Psychomotor Stimulant Effects of Caffeine in Laboratory Rats is a journal article describing a laboratory session in which students investigate the effects of psychostimulants on motor activity in rodents.
Constructing Inexpensive, Flexible, and Versatile Microdialysis Probes in an Undergraduate Microdialysis Research Lab is a protocol for a laboratory in which students construct and then utilise microdialysis probes to analyse glutamate release in rodent brains.
Design Plans for an Inexpensive Tail Flick Analgesia Meter is a journal article which provides the information required to construct an inexpensive tail flick analgesia meter.
Using in-vivo voltammetry to demonstrate Drug Action: A student Laboratory experience in neurochemistry is a journal article which describes a laboratory session in which students gain experience of measuring neurotransmitter release in rats in-vivo.