The Unit for Laboratory Animal Medicine (ULAM) Technical Services Team can perform a variety of technical services, including dosing and blood collection, compound administration, animal identification and genotyping, and other animal measurements...

This document has been designed by the ULAM veterinary personnel as a guideline for sedation , anesthesia , and analgesia of laboratory rats. This is not intended to be an inclusive tutorial on all possible drug combinations that can be used in rats...

To describe procedures to safely and appropriately identify and genotype animals used in laboratory research at the University of Michigan.

To address the health and well-being of mice and rats by ensuring safe breeding practices and population densities. Limiting breeding cage occupancy reduces the incidence of morbidity and mortality due to overcrowding. In all cases, cages should be...

This document is designed to provide general guidelines about administration of substances to laboratory animals. All procedures must be approved by the Institutional Animal Care & Use Committee (IACUC). The route of administration, intervals...

Procedures for entry and exiting animal housing areas, including changing the Vivarium Dedicated Uniform and showering.

To describe the procedures for classifying animals that are single housed and labeling cages appropriately. All single housed animals on campus must be identified with the reason they are housed singly.

This policy describes the process that the U-M IACUC will follow when investigating reports and allegations of noncompliance or welfare concerns relating to the care and/or use of vertebrate animals and/or cephalopods.