AR-News: Inhumane Spinal Cord Classes at OSU

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Subject: [interniche-l] Inhumane Spinal Cord Classes at OSU


Action Alert: Help Stop Inhumane Spinal Cord Classes at OSU 

 

  Ohio State University is offering what may be the most inhumane course 

ever taught: A class in injuring the spinal cords of rats and mice. 

 

Participants in OSU's Spinal Cord Injury Training Course will be taught 

how to systematically injure the animals' spinal cords by major surgery 

and blunt trauma. The three-week course will subject 189 rats and 60 

mice to multiple painful surgeries, laboratory procedures, and 

distressing behavioral exercises after the injuries. 

 

The course is going forward even though non-animal research on spinal 

cord injuries is yielding exciting results. For example, relevant data 

are being obtained through tests on human neural cell lines in culture, 

impact studies using human cadavers, clinical observations and trials, 

and other techniques that do not require the use of animals. 

 

If this course is not stopped, more than 200 animals will be subjected 

to painful surgeries and behavioral exercises every year. 

 

Please write to OSU and urge university officials to take action: 

 

Jacqueline C. Bresnahan, Ph.D. 

Associate Dean for Basic Research 

Department of Neuroscience 

The Ohio State University 

4190 Graves Hall 

333 W. 10th Avenue 

Columbus, OH 43210 

bresnahan.1 at osu.edu 

 

Karen A. Holbrook 

President 

The Ohio State University 

205 Bricker Hall 

190 North Oval Mall 

Columbus, OH 43210-1357 

holbrook.79 at osu.edu 

 

For letter writing tips, click here 

http://www.pcrm.org/resch/anexp/osu_letter.html



 

 
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