ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT PROGRAM

环境丰富计划

• 批准号: 8172939
• 负责人: KATE CANFIELD BAKER
• 金额: $ 6.18万
• 依托单位: TULANE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-05-01 至 2011-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8172939
• 关键词: Address; Animals; Behavior; Behavioral; Behavioral Research; Breeding; Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects Database; Continuing Education; Detection; Development; Devices; Employee; Environment; Fostering; Funding; Grant; Housing; Human; Institution; Intervention; Methods; Monitor; Monkeys; Outcome; Pharmacology; Positive Reinforcements; Primates; Procedures; Research; Research Personnel; Resources; Scientist; Source; Stress; Techniques; Time; Training; Training Activity; United States National Institutes of Health; Universities; animal resource; biological adaptation to stress; environmental enrichment for laboratory animals; feeding; gene therapy; graduate student; improved; medical schools; prevent; 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 2009. Methods: Techniques include 1) social introduction and ongoing monitoring of social dynamics, 2) detection of behavioral signs of impaired wellbeing and application of interventions to address these problems, 3) distribution of feeding enrichment and inanimate enrichment, 4) installation of new housing features, 5) application of positive reinforcement training and other forms of human interaction, and 6) assessment of animal wellbeing and outcomes of program elaborations. Results/Discussion: The percentage of the research colony socially housed at any one time has surpassed previous levels. 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. Implementation levels have risen for feeding and manipulable objects. Significant increases in the complexity of animal environments have been accomplished via the addition of hanging devices to all cages and additional hanging substrates within field enclosure. The proportion of animals that will take a treat offered by a stranger continues to increase, suggesting ongoing progress in the human-animal dynamic. Positive reinforcement training activities fostered compliance with research procedures, with shifting between enclosures, and with moderating stress reactions. A new program to desensitize monkeys during adjustment to cage-housing aims to improve human-animal interactions and prevent the development of stress-related decrements in wellbeing and behavior. Enrichment program staff systematically contribute to new employee training and continuing education. The Behavioral Biologist 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, and the Department of Animal Resources at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center.

该副本是利用众多研究子项目之一 由NIH/NCRR资助的中心赠款提供的资源。子弹和 调查员（PI）可能已经从其他NIH来源获得了主要资金， 因此可以在其他清晰的条目中代表。列出的机构是 对于中心，这不一定是调查员的机构。 简介：环境丰富和行为研究计划在2009年继续前进。方法：技术包括1）社会介绍和持续对社会动态的监控，2）检测到福祉受损和应用干预措施的行为迹象，解决这些问题的应用，3）3）对饲料的分布和不纳的疗法的分布，4）对人类相互作用的分布，4）4）4）4）4）5）4）5）5）5）4）4）5）5）5）动物福祉和计划阐述的结果。 结果/讨论：任何一次社会上所在的研究殖民地的百分比超过了以前的水平。 将猴子从同一育种群体直接转移到笼子笼中进行研究分配的实践已成为常规，并且在某些情况下消除了单个住房的使用，而在其他情况下则减少了单个住房的持续时间。实施级别的饲料和可操作对象的上升。 通过向所有笼子中添加悬挂装置以及野外围栏内的其他悬挂底物，已经实现了动物环境复杂性的显着提高。 陌生人提供的享受的动物比例继续增加，这表明人类动态动态的持续进展。 积极的强化训练活动促进了遵守研究程序，外壳之间的变化以及缓和压力反应。 在调整到笼子房期间使猴子脱敏的新程序旨在改善人类动物的相互作用，并防止与压力相关的福祉和行为减少的发展。丰富计划人员有系统地为新的员工培训和继续教育做出贡献。 行为生物学家与杜兰大学医学院药理学系，杜兰大学基因治疗中心以及Yerkes国家灵长类动物研究中心的动物资源系与科学家和研究生进行合作研究。