Irene Castle: The Unsung Role of a Humanitarian Towards
Fundamentals Defining the Operation of Modern IACUCs
Eduardo Tena-Betancourt1,2*, J Gerardo Arroyo-Del Castillo1, Regina J Bautista-Carbajal2 and Lukas Reipen1
DOI: 10.26717/BJSTR.2017.01.000298
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- 1Animal Facility Services and Experimental Surgery, Facultad Mexicana de Medicina, Universidad La Salle, A.C. CDMX, Mexico, 14000.
- 2Department of Ethology Wildlife and Laboratory Animals, Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia, UNAM, CDMX, Mexico,04510
Corresponding author:
Eduardo Tena-Betancourt, DVM, MSc, Coordinator, Animal Facility Services and Experimental Surgery, Facultad Mexicana de
Medicina, Universidad La Salle, Professor, Department of Ethology, Wildlife and Laboratory Animals, Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia, UNAM,
Ciudad Universitaria, CDMX, 04510, Mexico
Received: August 12, 2017; Published: August 23, 2017
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Abstract
Animal research is an evolutionary process where researchers subject themselves to strong competition for funding. Since 1985, the
approval of such endeavors had envisioned the official incorporation of strict rules and regulations to assure humane animal use and care,
falling under IACUCs regulation. In order to get their projects approved, researchers comply with their respective institutional organizations
but they are rarely, if never exposed, to data involving the fundamentals resulting in the creation of modern IACUCs. Therefore, this paper
intends to fill out an outstanding gap of information regarding the foundation of the first known animal ethics committee in the Chicago-area
during 1945, and the struggles that characterized its genesis and the official implementation among medical organizations, while describing
the early role played by distinct key characters involved that resulted in modern IACUCs.
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