ILAR Journal

ILAR Journal Current Issue — 49(4) 2008

ANIMAL USE OVERSIGHT: BALANCING RISK MANAGEMENT WITH BURDEN
The authors in this issue of the ILAR Journal variously address the need to mitigate risk associated with animal-based research and describe different ways to achieve the delicate balance between regulatory burden and research conducted in a humane and responsible manner. They are all strongly committed individuals at the core of the research enterprise and they are unanimous in their desire to both facilitate research and ensure the humane care and use of research animals.

—Adapted from the Introduction

Issue editors: Kathryn Bayne and Nelson Garnett

Articles in this issue:

Introduction: Mitigating Risk, Facilitating Research
A Guide to Risk Assessment in Animal Care and Use Programs: The Metaphor of the 3-Legged Stool
The Institutional Official and Postapproval Monitoring: The View from 10,000 Feet
Postapproval Monitoring and the IACUC
Postapproval Monitoring and the Role of the Compliance Office
A Sample Postapproval Monitoring Program in Academia
Program Oversight Enhancements: The Other PAM
Avoiding an Overzealous Approach: A Perspective on Regulatory Burden

Expanding ILAR Journal content with pertinent ONLINE ONLY articles.

To All Readers/Authors:
If you have a manuscript or laboratory refinement that relates to science-based, high-quality, humane care of animals, novel animal or other biological models for the study of disease, or any other topic pertinent to the mission of ILAR, you may submit it for publication in the ILAR e-Journal. Preferential consideration is given to manuscripts relating to recent (or forthcoming) topics published in the print edition.

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The ILAR Journal is the quarterly, peer-reviewed publication of the Institute for Laboratory Animal Research (ILAR). In keeping with the ILAR mission, invited authors provide thoughtful and timely information for all who use, care for, and oversee the use of laboratory animals. Issue themes and article topics are pertinent for investigators in biomedical and related research, institutional officials for research, veterinarians, and members of animal care and use committees. The ILAR e-Journal is the peer-reviewed electronic companion and supplement to our print journal and provides additional laboratory animal research content online in conjunction with the quarterly print issues of the Journal. The ILAR Journal is indexed in MEDLINE, AGRICOLA, EMBASE, and Thomson ISI^®.

ILAR e-Journal is available ONLY ONLINE. Institutional members have online access to current ILAR Journal and ILAR e-Journal content. For more information, contact Kathleen Beil at Kbeil@nas.edu.

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