Laboratory animal care (LAC)

Laboratory Animal Care is a scientific and professional journal focused on the care, use, and management of laboratory animals in biomedical and biological research. It provides guidance and research findings related to animal housing, welfare standards, ethical practices, and experimental methodologies involving laboratory animals such as rodents, rabbits, primates, and other model organisms. The journal plays an important role in supporting ethical and standardized practices in scientific research involving animals. It covers topics such as animal husbandry techniques, disease control in laboratory colonies, anesthesia and analgesia methods, surgical procedures, facility management, and regulatory compliance. It also emphasizes the refinement, reduction, and replacement (3Rs) principles in animal research ethics. Researchers, veterinarians, laboratory technicians, and institutional animal care personnel use the journal as a reference for best practices in maintaining animal health and ensuring reliable experimental results. It also includes studies on laboratory animal biology, breeding systems, and environmental enrichment strategies that improve animal welfare and research quality. Over time, Laboratory Animal Care contributed to the development of modern laboratory animal science standards and later evolved into or was incorporated into broader publications under the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science, including Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science (JAALAS).

Laboratory animal care (LAC) is :-

• International, Peer-Reviewed, Open Access, Refereed, Laboratory Animal Science, Veterinary Science, Biomedical Research, Animal Husbandry, Experimental Biology, Research Ethics, Animal Welfare, Toxicology Studies, animal husbandry techniques, disease control in laboratory colonies, anesthesia and analgesia methods, surgical procedures, facility management, regulatory compliance, It also emphasizes the refinement, reduction, replacement (3Rs) principles in animal research ethics , Online , Bi-Monthly Journal

• UGC Approved, ISSN Approved: P-ISSN E-ISSN: 0094-5331, Established: 1963,
• Does Not Provide Crossref DOI

• Not indexed in Scopus, WoS, DOAJ, PubMed, UGC CARE