f6098d8b__and_Use_of_Laboratory_Animals__Comments
[ID] 94 [Entry Date] 04/15/2011 at 01:22:17 PM [Affiliation] Self [Organization Name] Boston College [Organization City and State] Chestnut Hill, MA [Comments] 
Comment 1: Please DO NOT adopt the eighth edition of the guide. The new rules will hamper animal research on rodents and A & S universities. New rules on survival surgeries, cage sizes, and in particular, the use of pharmaceutical grade drugs will have an extremely negative impact on research. Much neuroscience research depends on research grade drugs to manipulate the brain. Much of neuroscience research requires one survival surgery and one non-survival surgery (cardiac perfusion with formaldehyde). Comment 2: See above. The new rules are much too severe and will deter important health-related research.
Listing of Public Comments on Proposed Adoption and Implementation of the Eighth Edition of the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals