Standard Operating Procedures and Forms

MS Word or PDF Downloads

In some instance, digital forms may be signed and submitted electronically using a digital signature. For guidance on how to create a digital signature for use with PDF documents, download the following guide:

• Digital Signature Instructions (PDF)

Forms that utilize a digital signature are identified with an asterisk “*”

• SOP #1 Rodent Anesthesia & Analgesia

• SOP #2 Blood samples from rodents -update

• SOP #3 Rodent Surgery

• SOP #4 Food and Water Restriction

• SOP #5 Rodent Euthanasia (PDF) - updated (6/20)

• SOP #6 Preparation of Sterile Non-Pharmaceutical Grade Compounds

• SOP #7 Rodent Husbandry (PDF)  -update

• SOP #8 Housing Rodents Outside the Vivarium (PDF)

• SOP #9 Aquatic Vertebrate Housing and Husbandry (PDF)

• SOP #10 Housing and Care of Snakes (PDF)

• SOP #11 Acoustic Startle and Pre-Pulse Inhibition Behavioral assay

• SOP #12 Morris Water Maze and Radial Arm Maze Behavioral Assay

• SOP #13 Zebrafish Behavioral Assays

Additional forms and SOPs:

• Standard Operating Procedures for Obtaining Donated Endothermic Vertebrate Tissues (PDF)
• Avian Embryos Use Form (PDF) *
• Whole Animal Perfusion (JOVE)