{"id":37291,"date":"2026-01-10T19:42:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T19:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iku.atu.edu.iq\/?p=37291"},"modified":"2026-01-10T19:43:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T19:43:06","slug":"closing-of-a-training-course-titled-how-to-handle-laboratory-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iku.atu.edu.iq\/?p=37291&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Closing of a training course titled (How to Handle Laboratory Animals)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-69e3c7bdf170934cd6ef8c92b75b3eda wp-block-paragraph\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"font-size:15px\">The Medical Laboratory Technology Department at the Technical Institute \/ Kufa concluded a specialized training course on how to handle laboratory animals in research experiments, which lasted for four days. The following were the presenters:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-e9d0ce4fad4fb923e0fcae58591c39f0 wp-block-paragraph\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"font-size:15px\">Assistant Professor Dr. Noor Ibrahim Abdualzahra<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-5b4d778f431b6d3cc6b4fcd6fe5f32b6 wp-block-paragraph\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"font-size:15px\">Lecturer Raja Jawad Kazem<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-2d5c1dd9902806d9d718b271a63a6f71 wp-block-paragraph\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"font-size:15px\">Lecturer Zainab Salah Jabar<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-8ce636558c694d035f0b0ad6a86ef527 wp-block-paragraph\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"font-size:15px\">Assistant Lecturer Noor Hassan Nasser<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-d6fa989b790b514e480830c6b85406da wp-block-paragraph\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"font-size:15px\">The course curriculum covered an introduction to laboratory animals and their importance in scientific research, highlighting the most commonly used species, such as rats and mice, and the reasons for their selection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-72870cd2da967a65f798918859f5acb4 wp-block-paragraph\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"font-size:15px\">It focused on the ethics of dealing with them according to the principle of animal welfare and the (3Rs) rule, as well as addressing the suitable environmental conditions for breeding and nutrition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-cef9a0ce98d1e3de9046317d0ffc7480 wp-block-paragraph\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"font-size:15px\">The course included fundamentals of safe handling of animals, methods of capturing them, prevention of zoonotic diseases, as well as techniques for administering medications, taking samples, anesthesia, and euthanasia according to ethical standards, with an emphasis on laboratory safety procedures and practical applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-8b2a137dc85f692c395850362a9d131a wp-block-paragraph\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"font-size:15px\">The significance of this course was summarized in ensuring humane and safe handling of laboratory animals, which preserves their health, reduces their suffering, and assures the safety of the researcher, while also contributing to accurate and reliable scientific results in accordance with established ethical standards<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/iku.atu.edu.iq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/604976244_1332013182279110_2069265767573893518_n-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-37292\" 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The following were the presenters: Assistant Professor Dr. Noor Ibrahim Abdualzahra Lecturer Raja Jawad Kazem Lecturer Zainab Salah Jabar Assistant Lecturer Noor Hassan Nasser The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/iku.atu.edu.iq\/?p=37291&#038;lang=en\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":37292,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[155,173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-divisions-and-units","category-activity-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iku.atu.edu.iq\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iku.atu.edu.iq\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iku.atu.edu.iq\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iku.atu.edu.iq\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iku.atu.edu.iq\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37291"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/iku.atu.edu.iq\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37297,"href":"https:\/\/iku.atu.edu.iq\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37291\/revisions\/37297"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iku.atu.edu.iq\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iku.atu.edu.iq\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iku.atu.edu.iq\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iku.atu.edu.iq\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}