Animal Rights & Animal Models Flashcards
What are the three main areas in animal welfare?
- How the animal feels
- The biological functioning
- Natural living for the animal
What does Singer argue?
He argues against speciesism since animals also feel pain/suffering and therefore are worthy of equal consideration.
Who are the 5 animal rights activist organizations?
- People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)
- Animal Liberation Front (ALF)
- Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC)
- Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM)
- Stop Animal Exploitation Now (SAEN)
What are the 4 types of animal models?
- Spontaneous (inherited disorders)
- Experimentally-induced (added into a healthy animal)
- Negative (non-models / a disease that is prevented with a treatment that would occur in a healthy animal)
- Orphan (a regular occurring disease in animals that is described similarly in humans once it occurs)
What are animal models for the CNS?
- Seizure Disorders
- Stroke
- Gangliosidosis (lipid storage disease)
- Parkinson’s Disease
What are animal models for the integumentary system?
Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome
What are animal models for inflammation?
- Endometriosis
- Periodontitis
What are animal models for the endocrine system?
- Diabetes mellitus (Type 1)
- Diabetes mellitus (Type 2)
What are animal models for blood disorders?
- von Willebrand’s disease
What are animal models for infections?
- Leprosy (Hansen’s disease)
- Hepatitis B and hepatocellular carcinoma
- Influenza
- COVID-19
What are animal models for congenital disease?
- Muscular dystrophy
What are animal models for biomedical?
- Endotoxin screening
- Murine Local Lymph Node Assay (LLNA)
What are animal models for immunodeficient mice?
- Nude (no fur)
- SCID
- Beige
- Xid
5.NSG
What are the animal models for behavior?
- Tail suspension
- Forced swim test
- Rotarod
- T-Maze
- Morris Water Maze
- Grip strength test
- Elevated plus maze
- Operant chamber/Skinner box
What are animal models for pain?
- Analgesiometry (the inability to feel pain)