AAALAC | Association for Assessment and Accreditation of |
Laboratory Animal Care International | |
AAAS | American Association for the Advancement of Science |
AALAS | American Association for Laboratory Animal Science |
AAVMC | Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges |
ABSL | animal biosafety level |
ACCMAL | Central American, Caribbean, and Mexican Association |
for Laboratory Animal Science | |
ACLAM | American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine |
AMCAL | Mexican Association for Laboratory Animal Science |
AMMRA | Asian Mouse Mutagenesis Resources Association |
APC | UK Animal Procedures Committee |
AQSIQ | Provincial Administration of Quality Supervision, |
Inspection, and Quarantine (China) | |
ASLAP | American Society of Laboratory Animal Practitioners |
AV | attending veterinarian |
AVA | Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority |
AVMA | American Veterinary Medical Association |
BAC | bacterial artificial chromosome |
CALAM/ACMAL | Canadian Association for Laboratory Animal Medicine |
CAST | Council for Agricultural Science and Technology (US) |
CCAC | Canadian Council on Animal Care |
CEDD | center of excellence for drug discovery |
CENEVAL | National Center for Higher Education Evaluation (Mexico) |
CHORI | Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute (California) |
CIOMS | Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences |
CMMR | Canadian Mouse Mutant Repository |
CNRS | National Center for Scientific Research (France) |
ConeVet | National Council for Veterinary Medical Education (academic branch of the Mexican Veterinary Medical Association) |
CPCSEA | Committee for the Purpose of Control and Supervision of Experiments on Animals (India) |
CPMP | Committee for Proprietary Medicinal Products |
CRISP | NIH Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects system |
CRO | contract research organization |
ECLAM | European College of Laboratory Animal Medicine |
ECVAM | European Center for the Validation of Alternative Methods |
EE | enriched environment or environmental enrichment |
EFSA | European Food Safety Authority |
EMMA | European Mouse Mutant Archive |
ENU | ethylnitrosourea |
ESC | embryonic stem cell |
ESLAV | European Society of Laboratory Animal Veterinarians |
ETS 123 | European Convention for the Protection of Vertebrate Animals Used for Experimental and Other Scientific Purposes |
EUCOMM | European Conditional Mouse Mutagenesis |
EUMODIC | European Mouse Disease Clinic |
FDA | US Food and Drug Administration |
FELASA | Federation of European Laboratory Animal Science Associations |
FeSSACAL | South American Federation for Laboratory Animal Science |
FIMRe | Federation of International Mouse Resources |
GEMM | genetically engineered mouse model |
GLP | good laboratory practice |
GM | genetically modified or genetic modification |
the Guide | Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals (NRC report) |
HO | Home Office (UK) |
HVAC | heating, ventilation, and air conditioning |
IACLAM | International Association of Colleges of Laboratory Animal Medicine |
IACUC | institutional animal care and use committee |
IATA | International Air Transport Association |
ICCVAM | Interagency Coordinating Committee on the Validation of Alternative Methods |
ICH | International Council on Harmonization |
ICLAS | International Council for Laboratory Animal Science |
IKMC | International Knockout Mouse Consortium |
iPS | induced pluripotent stem [cell] |
IRAC | Interagency Research Animal Committee |
JAX | Jackson Laboratory |
JCLAM | Japanese College of Laboratory Animal Medicine |
KOMP | Knockout Mouse Project |
LAM | laboratory animal medicine |
LAR | Live Animals Regulations |
MMRRC | Mutant Mouse Regional Resource Centers |
MOU | memorandum of understanding |
MSM | Mus musculus molossinus |
MTA | materials transfer agreement |
NACLAR | National Advisory Committee for Laboratory Animal Research (Singapore) |
NC3Rs | UK National Center for Replacement, Refinement, and Reduction of Animals in Research |
NCRR | National Center for Research Resources (at US NIH) |
NGO | nongovernmental organization |
NHMRC | National Health and Medical Research Council (Australia) |
NHP | nonhuman primate(s) |
NIH | US National Institutes of Health |
NorCOMM | North American Conditional Mouse Mutagenesis [Project] |
NTP | National Toxicology Program |
OECD | Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development |
OIE | Office International des Epizooties, now the World Organization for Animal Health (but still goes by OIE) |
OLAW | Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare (at US NIH) |
PAHO | Pan American Health Organization |
PCR | polymerase chain reaction |
PETA | People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals |
PHS | US Public Health Service |
RFID | radio frequency identification |
SARS | severe acute respiratory syndrome |
SIV | simian immunodeficiency virus |
TA | teaching assistant |
TACT | Air Cargo Tariff [book] |
TCP | Toronto Centre for Phenogenomics |
USAMRIID | United States Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases |
VICH | International Cooperation on Harmonization of Technical Requirements for Registration of Veterinary Medicinal Products |
VRL | Virus Reference Laboratory |