SOPs (UZH/ETH AWOs)

The veterinary office ZH as well as the VPs Research of UZH and ETH asked the Offices for Animal Welfare and 3Rs to establish common SOPs for often used procedures.
In the meantime a few SOPs were established.

If you want to share recently approved SOPs with other researchers you can send your SOPs with the corresponding license numbers to the AWOs (tierwohl(at)research.uzh.ch).

SOP Fluid Therapy (PDF, 154 KB) (lab rodents)

SOP 001 Isoflurane Inhalation Anesthesia (lab rodents) (PDF, 163 KB)

SOP 002 Analgesia with Ethiqa XR (mice) (PDF, 378 KB)

SOP MDA (PDF, 222 KB) (lab rodents)  Authors: Juliet Richetto, Urs Meyer, Paulin Jirkof

SOP 003 Glucose Tolerance Test (GTT) (DOCX, 52 KB) (lab rodents)

SOP 004 Insulin Tolerance Test (ITT) (DOCX, 43 KB) (lab rodents)

The UZH Working Group on Aseptic Surgical Technique in Rodents prepared a "Checklist for surgical procedures in laboratory rodents at UZH" (PDF, 89 KB) and a table of “Materials needed to meet the standards for surgical procedures in laboratory rodents at UZH” (PDF, 123 KB)

The main goal of these documents is to support researchers who are planning to perform surgical procedures in laboratory rodents by providing guidance and orientation, with focus on aseptic surgical technique. The checklist is rather general because its aim is to cover broad options, e.g. given the variety of surgical set-ups. Please note these are “living” documents that may be updated as needed.

If you have feedback on these documents, please contact the coordinator of the UZH Working Group on Aseptic Surgical Technique in Rodents, Corina Berset.

This is a template (DOCX, 28 KB) provided as guidance for documentation purposes. Please adapt it to reflect the experimental procedures approved in your license. In case of questions, please contact your AWOs.