Animal Rights & Animal Models Flashcards

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What are the three main areas in animal welfare?

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  1. How the animal feels
  2. The biological functioning
  3. Natural living for the animal
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What does Singer argue?

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He argues against speciesism since animals also feel pain/suffering and therefore are worthy of equal consideration.

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Who are the 5 animal rights activist organizations?

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  1. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)
  2. Animal Liberation Front (ALF)
  3. Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC)
  4. Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM)
  5. Stop Animal Exploitation Now (SAEN)
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What are the 4 types of animal models?

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  1. Spontaneous (inherited disorders)
  2. Experimentally-induced (added into a healthy animal)
  3. Negative (non-models / a disease that is prevented with a treatment that would occur in a healthy animal)
  4. Orphan (a regular occurring disease in animals that is described similarly in humans once it occurs)
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What are animal models for the CNS?

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  1. Seizure Disorders
  2. Stroke
  3. Gangliosidosis (lipid storage disease)
  4. Parkinson’s Disease
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What are animal models for the integumentary system?

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Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome

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What are animal models for inflammation?

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  1. Endometriosis
  2. Periodontitis
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What are animal models for the endocrine system?

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  1. Diabetes mellitus (Type 1)
  2. Diabetes mellitus (Type 2)
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What are animal models for blood disorders?

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  1. von Willebrand’s disease
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What are animal models for infections?

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  1. Leprosy (Hansen’s disease)
  2. Hepatitis B and hepatocellular carcinoma
  3. Influenza
  4. COVID-19
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What are animal models for congenital disease?

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  1. Muscular dystrophy
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What are animal models for biomedical?

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  1. Endotoxin screening
  2. Murine Local Lymph Node Assay (LLNA)
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What are animal models for immunodeficient mice?

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  1. Nude (no fur)
  2. SCID
  3. Beige
  4. Xid
    5.NSG
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What are the animal models for behavior?

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  1. Tail suspension
  2. Forced swim test
  3. Rotarod
  4. T-Maze
  5. Morris Water Maze
  6. Grip strength test
  7. Elevated plus maze
  8. Operant chamber/Skinner box
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What are animal models for pain?

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  1. Analgesiometry (the inability to feel pain)
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What are the animal models for transgenics?

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  1. Microinjection of DNA into nucleus of zygotes
  2. Injection of embryonic stem cells into blastocytes