IACUCs

ILAR is a key source for important, authoritative reference information that every member of an Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) needs to perform their committee duties properly.

Publications like the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals provide accepted guidelines based on established scientific principles, expert opinion, and experience for methods and practices consistent with high-quality humane animal care.

ILAR's Books & Reports address complex issues IACUC committee members deal with frequently. Important examples include: Definition of Pain and Distress and Reporting Requirements for Laboratory Animals; Monoclonal Antibody Production; and Psychological Well-being of Nonhuman Primates. Each of these reports provides pertinent and timely review studies that help to resolve many important IACUC concerns.

The ILAR Journal, peer reviewed and published quarterly, is devoted to highly challenging and important topics of interest to IACUC officials. Issues of interest to IACUC members include:

• Training and Adult Learning Strategies for the Care and Use of Laboraratory Animals
• Contemporary Topics for Animal Care Committees
• Enrichment Strategies for Laboratory Animals
• When Rats and Mice Cannot Answer the Question: Nontraditional Animal Models for Laboratory Research
• Behavioral Research Outside the Laboratory
• Physiological Research Outside the Laboratory
• Implications of Human-Animal Interactions and Bonds in the Laboratory
• Experimental Design and Statistics in Biomedical Research

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