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Plymouth University are Involved in Vivisection

Between 2007 and 2010 The University of Plymouth experimented on the following fish/birds/animals:

Rainbow Trout	Zebrafish	Cichlids
Salmonids	Northern Gannet	Leach's petrel
Lesser black-backed gull	Great skua	Tilapia
Carp	Chickens	Mice

Some of the procedures on birds involved the tagging of sea birds only, however the university admitted that mice, chickens and fish had been subjected to 'moderate' procedures. Experiments are classified as either 'mild', 'moderate', or 'severe' in terms of how much suffering they cause.

We found out more details about mice, chickens and zebrafish as follows:

	Chickens Assessment of feed interventions on gut microflora and histology Assessment of feed interventions on immune response Assessment of feed interventions on gastro0intestinal tract infections
	Mice Obtaining nervous system tissue Breeding and maintenance of genetically modified animals Investigation of regeneration of processes in damaged sciatic nerve tissue
	Zebra fish Investigation of the effect of adult body condition on offspring Measuring the stress response Measuring ionoregulatory ability Physiology and behavioural profiling Production, breeding and maintenance of transgenic breeding lines Collection of gametes

The mice experiments would have caused a lot of suffering and the chicken experiments probably involved making chickens deliberately ill, keeping them in laboratory conditions and testing feeds to see how they are affected by them." The Vice Chancellor of Plymouth University, Wendy Purcell, claims that she supports the encouragement of alternative methods of research that do not involve animals. She has even in the past received a grant from the Dr. Hadwen Trust, who fund humane research, for her own biomedical science research. Yet she allows the barbaric practice of vivisection to carry on at the university she presides over.

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