ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT PROGRAM

环境丰富计划

• 批准号: 7958597
• 负责人: KATE CANFIELD BAKER
• 金额: $ 8.23万
• 依托单位: TULANE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-05-01 至 2010-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7958597
• 关键词: Aggressive behavior; Animal Experimentation; Animals; Behavioral Research; Breeding; Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects Database; Continuing Education; Data Collection; Devices; Employee; Fostering; Funding; Grant; Housing; Individual; Institution; Louisiana; Methods; Monkeys; Perch; Pharmacology; Positioning Attribute; Positive Reinforcements; Primates; Procedures; Psychology; Research; Research Personnel; Resources; Scientist; Source; Techniques; Training; Training Activity; United States National Institutes of Health; Universities; animal resource; environmental enrichment for laboratory animals; feeding; gene therapy; graduate student; medical schools; programs; social

This subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. The subproject and investigator (PI) may have received primary funding from another NIH source, and thus could be represented in other CRISP entries. The institution listed is for the Center, which is not necessarily the institution for the investigator. Introduction: The environmental enrichment and behavioral research programs continued move forward in 2008. Methods: A Primate Enrichment Manager position was created to support an elaborated enrichment program. Continued progress was made in increasing the use of social housing for research animals and the implementation of a variety of enrichment techniques. The practice of moving monkeys from the same breeding groups directly into pair caging for research assignment has become routine, and has in some cases eliminated the use of single housing and in others reduced the duration of single housing. Results/Discussion: Implementation levels have risen for feeding enrichment, portable objects, and perching. Significant increases in the complexity of animal caging have been accomplished via the addition of hanging devices to 1000 cages and foraging devices to 600 cages. Increased emphasis on data collection and objective assessments is guiding decisions regarding programmatic changes and the management of individual animals. Positive reinforcement training activities fostered cooperative feeding to reduce aggression and compliance with several research procedures. Enrichment program staff systematically contributed to new employee training and continuing education. The Environmental Enrichment and Behavioral Research Coordinator conducts collaborative research with scientists and graduate students in the Department of Pharmacology at the Tulane University School of Medicine, the Tulane University Center for Gene Therapy, the Department of Psychology at Southeastern Louisiana University, and the Department of Animal Resources at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center.

该子项目是利用该技术的众多研究子项目之一 资源由 NIH/NCRR 资助的中心拨款提供。子项目及 研究者 (PI) 可能已从 NIH 的另一个来源获得主要资金， 因此可以在其他 CRISP 条目中表示。列出的机构是 对于中心来说，它不一定是研究者的机构。 简介：2008 年，环境丰富化和行为研究计划继续向前推进。 方法：设立了灵长类动物丰富化经理职位，以支持精心设计的丰富化计划。 在增加研究动物社会住房的使用和实施各种丰富技术方面不断取得进展。 将来自同一繁殖群体的猴子直接转移到配对笼中进行研究任务的做法已成为惯例，并且在某些情况下消除了单一住房的使用，在其他情况下减少了单一住房的持续时间。结果/讨论：饲养丰富、便携式物体和栖息的实施水平有所提高。 通过为 1000 个笼子添加悬挂装置和为 600 个笼子添加觅食装置，动物笼养的复杂性显着增加。 对数据收集和客观评估的日益重视正在指导有关计划变更和个体动物管理的决策。 积极强化训练活动促进合作喂养，以减少攻击性并遵守多项研究程序。 丰富计划的员工系统地为新员工培训和继续教育做出了贡献。 环境丰富和行为研究协调员与杜兰大学医学院药理学系、杜兰大学基因治疗中心、东南路易斯安那大学心理学系和动物系的科学家和研究生进行合作研究耶克斯国家灵长类研究中心的资源。