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    TTUHSC El Paso is located in the second largest binational metropolitan area on the U.S.-Mexico border. It provides the opportunities and environment for direct intellectual and interpersonal exchanges among nursing, medical, and graduate research students on one campus.

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    TTUHSC El Paso provides a variety of educational opportunities for current and future physicians.

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    Providing enhanced biomedical opportunities in a collaborative environment to improve our nation's well-being.

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    Texas Tech Physicians of El Paso is part of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Paul L. Foster School of Medicine. Our dedicated team of health care professionals and staff strive to provide patients with high-quality, safe health care services.

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IACUC Policies and Procedures

# Policy
0 Introduction to IACUC Policies and Procedures
1 Animal Use Performed by/for TTUHSCEP Investigators at Non-TTUHSCEOP Sites
2 Veterinary Care
3 Breeding Colonies
4 Pain Categories for Protocols
5 Cervical Dislocation or Decapitation of Animals
6 Use of Complete Freund's Adjuvant and Other Adjuvants in Laboratory Animals
7 Designated Reviews
8 Rodent Survival Surgery and Euthanasia
9 Inhalant Euthanasia
10 Experimental Neoplasia in Rodents
11 Complaints of Mistreatment of Animals and Policy Noncompliance at TTUHSCEP
12 Procurement, Housing and Accountability for the Use of Live Vertebrate Animals
13 Protocol Approval, Implementation, Review and Amendment Processes
15 Survival Surgery
16 Tail Snipping and Tail Biopsy of Rodents
17 Use of Fertilized and Embryonated Avian Eggs
18 Frog Oocyte Harvest
19 Humane Endpoints Regarding Severe or Chronic Pain or Distress
20 Administrative Approval of Amendments
21 Use of Non-Pharmaceutical Grade Compounds
22 Review of Grant Content with IACUC Protocol
23 Use of Zebrafish for Research and Teaching
24 Expired Drugs
25 Animal Accounting
26 Housing of Social Species
27 Veterinary Administrative Approval for Significant Protocol Changes (VVC)
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