Office of Research Administration (ORA) 2018-19 Winter Holiday Closure

The Office Research Administration (ORA) will observe UCLA’s 2018-19 Winter Holiday Closure. ORA will be closed beginning Saturday, December 22, 2018 and will reopen on Wednesday, January 2, 2019. Please be advised that the Chancellor’s Animal Research Committee (ARC), Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC), and Medical Radiation Safety Committee (MRSC) / Radioactive Drug Research Committee (RDRC) will not conduct business during the … Read More

RATS Tutorial

You can use RATS to create new protocols and breeding colonies and to monitor the status of your protocol as it makes it’s way through the approval process. You can create new protocol and breeding colony applications in RATS.

Rodent CO2 Euthanasia

The American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) Guidelines for the Euthanasia of Animals: 2013 Edition includes new recommendations concerning use of CO2 exposure as a method of euthanasia for laboratory rodents.

Care of EAE Mice

EAE (experimental allergic encephalomyelitis) is an animal model for Central Nervous System (CNS) autoimmune disease. It is widely used as a human Multiple Sclerosis (MS) model.

ARC POLICY UPDATE

The ARC recently revised the Policy, Environmental Enrichment, primarily to clarify and update enrichment practices in use for mice and rats. You will recall that the ARC announced a 30-day comment period to invite feedback on the proposed changes; as no comments were received from the research community, the proposed Policy changes were implemented as previously described. The revised Policy is available at … Read More