COURSE UNIT TITLE

: LABORATORY ANIMALS

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
SHS 2019 LABORATORY ANIMALS ELECTIVE 2 4 0 5

Offered By

Vocational School of Healthcare

Level of Course Unit

Short Cycle Programmes (Associate's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR OSMAN YILMAZ

Offered to

Medical Laboratory Techniques
Oral and Dental Clinical
Anesthesia
Medical Documentation and Secretariat
Medical Imaging Techniques
Audiometry
Nuclear Medicine Techniques
First And Emergency Aid
Radioterapy

Course Objective

Course of experimental animals, to teach experimental animal studies used in some kind of experimental animals and laboratory animals species and their strains, to teach some basic information about the general characteristics, to show some basic manipulation techniques on rats.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   LO 1. To be able to describe some kind of experimental animals species and their strains properties
2   LO 2. To be able to assimilate basic manipulation techniques on rats
3   LO 3. To be able to explain using experimental animals on researches
4   LO 4. To be able to explain experimental animal selection
5   LO 5. To be able to describe universal rules about reliability, standardization and using experimental animals ethics issues

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 1. Basic concepts of experimental animals 1.1. Experimental Animal 1.2. Laboratory Animal 1.3. The use of animals in experiments and justification 1.4. The importance of experimental animal studies
2 2. Mouse (Mus musculus) 2.1. Mouse strains 2.2. Mouse properties 2.3. The use of mice in experiments
3 3. Rat (Rattus norvegicus) 3.1. Rat strains 3.2. Rat properties 3.3. The use of rats in experiments
4 4. Rabbit (Orytalagus cunuculus) 4.1. Rabbit strains 4.2. Rabbit properties 4.3. The use of rabbits in experiments
5 5. Guinea Pig (Cavia porcellus) 5.1. Guinea Pig strains 5.2. Guinea Pig properties 5.3. The use of guinea pigs in experiments
6 6. Hamster (Mesoceicetus auratus) 6.1. Hamster strains 6.2. Hamster properties 6.3. The use of hamsters in experiments
7 7. Some species are used as experimental animals
8 8. Some primates are used as experimental animals 8.1. Primats and properties
9 9. Some species are used as experimental animals 9.1. Cats and properties 9.2. Dogs and properties 9.3. Pigs and properties
10 10. Ethical obligations of experimental animal studies 10.1. The basic ethical principles in the use of experimental animals 10.2. Bioethics
11 11. Justification for the use of animals in experimental animal studies 11.1. Why we use animals
12 12. What is the importance of experimental animal studies 12.1. The importance of the animal selection of experiments 12.2. The selecting animal the effect of experiments results
13 13. Some manipulations in experimental animal studies 13.1. Mouse holding technique 13.2. Rat holding technique 13.3. Rabbit holding technique
14 14. Some manipulations in experimental animal studies 14.1. Rat intravenous blood collection technique 14.2. Rat intravenous injection technique 14.3. Rat subcutaneous injection technique 14.4. Rat intramuscular injection technique

Recomended or Required Reading

Textbook(s)/References/Materials:
Ide T, Laboratuvar hayvanları biliminin temel ilkeleri, Ankara, Medipress Yayıncılık, 2003.
Poyraz Ö, Laboratuvar hayvanları bilimi, Ankara, Kardelen Ofset Baskısı,2000.
Yeğen Ç. B., Gören M.Z. : Biyomedikal Araştırmalarda Deney hayvanı Temel Bilgiler ve Etik Ilkeler, Istanbul, Yüce Yayımcılık, 2005.
Başaran A, Deney hayvanları; laboratuvar teknikleri, Nisan kitabevi yayınları.
Dr. Nail Odabaşoğlu, Prof. Dr. Ataman Güre , Yard. Doç.Dr. Eşref Yeğin , Yard. Doç.Dr. Galip Akın : Laboratuvar hayvanları I , Van 1988.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1. Presentations
2. Topic research, interactive discussion and commenting
3. Evaluation of information

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTET 1 MIDTERM EXAM (THEORY) 1
2 MTET 2 MIDTERM EXAM (THEORY) 2
3 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE AR1 * 0.50 + AR2 * 0.50
4 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE
5 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE VOR * 0.50 + FN * 0.50
6 RST RESIT
7 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) VOR * 0.50 + BUT * 0.50


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

1. Should be compatible with course credit.
2. If there is a theoretical course of theoretical exam and If there is a practice course of practice exam.
3. Preferably added to homework

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

osman.yilmaz@deu.edu.tr, +90 232 412 4651

Office Hours

osman.yilmaz@deu.edu.tr, +90 232 412 4651

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 12 2 24
Tutorials 12 2 24
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 3 36
Preparation for midterm exam 2 7 14
Preparation for final exam 2 7 14
Midterm 2 2 4
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 118

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14PO.15PO.16PO.17PO.18
LO.11
LO.21
LO.31
LO.41
LO.51

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