Internetowy protest przeciw wiwisekcji!

Wyślij nawet krótki list przeciw torturowaniu i mordowaniu zwierząt w imię pseudo-nauki!! Twój mały krok, to wielki krok dla godności zwierząt!

"Wiwisekcja - to eksperymentowanie na żywych organizmach. Doświadczeniom wiwisekcyjnym rok rocznie poświęca się miliony zwierząt. W samych Stanach Zjednoczonych ich liczbę szacuje się w granicach między 17 a 70 milionami (1). Zakres jak widac ogromny - pytanie brzmi z kąd tak duży margines? Otóż w USA prawo The Animal Welfare Act wymaga od laboratoriów raportów co do ilości zwierząt, na którcyh przeprowadza się eksperymenty. Jednakże to samo prawo nie uwzględnia myszy, szczurów, ani też ptaków, a te właśnie gatunki wykorzystuje się w znaczącej częsci doświadczeń. Ponieważ The Animal Welfare Act zwierząt tych we wspomnianym wymogu nie uwzględnia, laboratoria nie muszą meldować o wykorzystywaniu ich do wiwisekcji, w skutek czego można jedynie domniemywać dokładnej liczby zwierząt składanych na ołtarzu nauki.
Oprócz myszy i szczurow, do doświadczeń używa się również kolosalnych wręcz ilości chomików, świnek morskich, małp, żab, królików. Do eksperymentów wykorzystuje się również psy i koty. Niektóre ze zwierząt pochodzą z hodowli, inne do laboratoriów dostały się schwytane w pułapkę." cytat z Watahy

Niżej wszystkie wymienione w opisach maile 'naukowcow' przeprowadzajacych
eksperymenty na zwierzetach.

napisz nawet krotki list do wszystkich (moze byc na raz)!!!!

pleake@ohns.ucsf.edu, rsnyder@ohns.ucsf.edu, stryker@phy.ucsf.edu, ken@neurotheory.columbia.edu, starrp@neurosurg.ucsf.edu,
hjr@phy.ucsf.edu, HortonJ@vision.ucsf.edu, chris@phy.ucsf.edu, sgl@phy.ucsf.edu, michael.dae@radiology.ucsf.edu, olgin@medicine.ucsf.edu

np.
Temat: STOP VIVISECTION!

najlepiej w tresci napisac jakies swoje dane, chocby imie, miasto,
kraj

UNIVERSITY CALIFORNIA S.F VIVISECTION! PLEASE TAKE ACTION
Write, call, let your voice be heard about these disgusting and cruel experiments falsely labeled "science" at UCSF.

DOG EXPERIMENTS: Dr. Jeffrey E. Olgin's latest projects would abuse 750 dogs in a three-year period. (The NIH has funded his dog
experiments since 1992.)

1st Dog Experiment by Jeffrey Olgin:

Title: Remodeling in Atrial Fibrillation

Claimed Purpose: “To study the stages of congestive heart failure."

Procedures: 150 dogs would be surgically implanted with one pacemaker. Another 150 dogs would be implanted with two pacemakers. Yet
another 150 dogs would be subjected to “mitral valve avulsion," a surgical procedure that tears a portion of the mitral valve of the dog's
heart in order to cause “mitral regurgitation," or the blood to flow backwards. Another 100 dogs will be used as controls. The 450 dogs
who undergo surgery are expected to survive 4 weeks to 6 months. However, “the only animals that would survive for up to 6 months are the
RAP (rapid atrial pacing) dogs, and this is very rare." The dogs “will be monitored weekly, and daily if problems arise." Problems may be
“infection in pacemaker pocket, signs of heart failure (i.e., ascites, lethargy), appearance of continued pain such as crying, flinching
from touch, limping or in any way favoring incision area, or weight loss." Some dogs will be given “experimental drugs"; i.e., Ace
inhibitor, PAI-1 inhibitor, TFG-B antagonist, and Pirfenidone. Thirty percent of the surgically impaired dogs are expected to die before
the project ends. All 550 dogs, if they survive,SS Swill eventually undergo a terminal 8-hour-long electrophysiological study. While the
dogs are under general anesthesia, their chests are cut open. “To support the heart, a pericardial cradle is made by suturing each corner
of the cut pericardium to the skin. Recordings of the heart's internal blood pressure, EKG, PQRST intervals, and heart rates are taken for
later analysis. Finally, the dogs will be euthanized and their hearts removed for optical mapping, cellular electrophysiology and
histology analysis."
2nd Dog Experiment by Jeffrey Olgin:

Title: Effects of Congestive Heart Failure on Electrophysiology and Remodeling

Claimed Purpose: “To understand the mechanism by which heart failure causes atrial fibrillation [arrhythmia]."

Procedures: Experimenters plan to implant pacemakers in 160 dogs. 40 dogs will be used as controls. Three to five days after surgery, the
pacemakers will be programmed to rapidly pace at 200 to 250 beats per minute for 2-6 weeks and/or until the dogs show symptoms of heart
failure. There is the potential for severe pain as "adverse effects" include "abdominal bloating from heart failure, pulmonary edema and
coughing" and infection from the implantation of the pacemakers. The dogs will receive analgesics “on an as needed basis." Pain will be
assessed by “whether the dog flinches when touched, cries out when touched or in any way favors the incision [from the surgery], or fails
to eat and drink." It is planned for the dogs to live from 2-7 weeks after surgery. Five percent of dogs are expected to die due to heart
failure during the course of the experiment. The dogs will undergo weekly EKG's “to assess the degree of heart failure and/or mitral
regurgitation." All dogs, including those in the control group, will be euthanized in the end and their hearts cut out for “optical
mapping, cellular electrophysiology and histology analysis" or autoradiography.

Jeffrey E. Olgin
370 Madrone Ave.
Larkspur, CA 94939
415-945-7848

Campus Info:
Professor Jeffrey Olgin
Box 1354
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA. 94143
E-mail:
olgin@medicine.ucsf.edu
Campus phone: 415-476-5706
Fax: 415-476-6260

Michael W. Dae's experiments
Title: Noninvasive Assessment of Cardiac Adrenergic Function.

Purpose: “To show that myocardial ischemia, infarction, or congetive heart failure lead to partial denervation of the heart (and) that
increases in activity to the nerves of the heart from the central nervous system are delivered unevenly to the partially denervated
myocardium."

Procedures: German shepherd/mongrel puppies, one to three days old, undergo surgical removal of the right or left stellate ganglion (a
mass of nerve cells located in the region between the neck and upper chest). Two weeks later, the puppies undergo general anesthesia to
have their hearts cut out and "processed for autoradiography and in vitro studies." Other puppies will be injected with drugs to cause
their nerves to malfunction. The puppies used as controls will also be killed and have their hearts taken out. Aside from the 64 German
shepherd/mongrel pups, 64 pigs, 218 rabbits, 75 mice and 80 rats meet similar fates in related experiments.

Michael W. Dae
1714 Notre Dame Ave.
Belmont, CA 94002
(650) 595-8736

Campus Info: Professor Michael Dae
Box 0946 , 185 Berry Sreet, Suite 350dg 365
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA. 94143
Email: michael.dae@radiology.ucsf.edu
Campus Phone: 415-353-9473
Fax: 415-353-9421

Monkey Experiments conducted by Stephen G. Lisberger

Claimed Purpose: To "discover the mechanisms of basic brain functions such as learning, memory, and the generation of motor activity" of
the eye.

Procedures: The monkeys have metal plates bolted onto their skulls; steel recording cylinders are drilled into their skulls and cemented
into place. Their eyes are cut open with scalpels and metal coils are placed inside. Eyeglasses are bolted onto their faces to distort
their vision for up to three months at a time. The monkeys are deprived of water in order to keep them thirsty and motivate them to “work”
for a juice reward. The monkeys are strapped into restraint chairs and are forced to move their eyes in a certain pattern for a juice
reward. These experiments last up to 8 hours a day. Experimenters drive electrodes deep into the brain to record brain activity in
response to eye movements.

Stephen G. Lisberger
848 Clayton St.
San Francisco, CA 94117
(415) 661-2071

Campus Info:
Professor Steve Lisberger
Box 0444 , Central Campus, HSE-812
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA. 94143
Email: sgl@phy.ucsf.edu
Campus Phone: 415-476-1062
Campus Phone 2: 415-476-5123
Fax: 415-502-4848

Experiments by Christoph E. Schreiner

Funding: Two Federal NIH Grants:
$289,638 per year (since 1994)
+ $386,593 per year (since 1972)

Schreiner has taken over this grant from former Michael Merzenech.

Claiming to study learning disabilities, schizophrenia, depression, repetitive strain injury, stroke injury, etc., his team restrains the
monkeys around the neck and waste in a chair that prevents their hands from reaching their heads. The monkeys are restrained up to five
hours each day, five days per week. The monkeys undergo several surgeries to implant electrodes to record brain activity. Fluid and food
restriction/reward is used to make them perform repetitive tasks beyond the point of injury. His team also puts microphone-headphones on
the monkeys to see how they would react to a distorted play-back of their own vocalizations.

Christoph E. Schreiner
1507 Perez Dr.
Pacifica, CA 94044
650-355-9439

Campus Info:
Professor Christoph Schreiner
Box 0732 , Core Campus, HSE 824
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA. 94143
Email: chris@phy.ucsf.edu
Campus phone: 415-476-2591
Fax: 415-476-1941

Experiments by Jonathan C Horton

Claiming to study lazy eye and imbalance of eye muscles, he sutures one eyelid of each baby animal shut. He severs their eye muscles. He
then paralyzes and restrains the infant monkeys and cats in brain-mapping experiments that last 24 hours a day for up to five days
non-stop.

Jonathan C Horton
2230 Sheraton Pl
San Mateo, CA 94402
(650) 573-8855

Campus Info: Professor Jonathan Horton
Box 0644 , 8 Koret Way 516
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA. 94143
Email: HortonJ@vision.ucsf.edu
Campus Phone: 415-476-7176
Fax: 415-476-8309

Experiments by Henry J. Ralston III

Title: Morphophysiology of Thalamic Nociceptive (Pain-sensing) Neurons

Claimed Purpose: To "study the somatosensory thalamus of the monkey and how thalamic neural circuitry is changed following partial
deafferentation, such as occurs with spinal cord injury."

Procedures: Experimenters "study" pain by surgically damaging parts of the monkeys' spinal cord to see what happens to their brains as a
result.

History: On March 13, 2003, a USDA inspection report cited UCSF for Ralston’s failure to provide pain relief to a monkey who had his
skull cut open. USDA also cited UCSF for Ralston’s failure to gain proper approval for a procedure in which he drilled four holes into a
monkey‚s skull to gain access to his or her brain.

Henry J. Ralston
136 Lunado Way
San Francisco, CA 94127

Campus Info:
Professor Henry Ralston
Box 0452 , 513 Parnassus Ave, Med Sci 1334
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA. 94143
Email: hjr@phy.ucsf.edu
Campus Phone: 415-476-1861
Campus Phone 2: 415-476-4400
Fax: 415-476-4845

Experiments conducted by Philip A. Starr

Title: Basal Ganglia Physiology

Claimed Purpose: "To determine the roles of the basal ganglia in the development of dystonia, a condition in which muscles are
overactive, producing abnormal postures and/or twisting, writhing movements."

Procedures: The monkeys are made to develop hand dystonia by a repetitive motion task. They are forced from the cage to the restraint
chair using two capture poles. Two recording chambers and three head fixation bolts are surgically screwed to the skull. Wires are
inserted to wind under the skin from the head to the muscles of the left and right arm. Recording sessions last up to 4 hours every
weekday for 18 months. The monkeys are forced to repetitively open and close their hands to receive a semi-solid food reward through a
tube by squeezing a computer-controlled hand grip. They will also be timed on a fruit-picking task. After 12-25 weeks of this, with
200-400 trials per day, the monkeys will develop hand dystonia characterized by posturing of the hand, and reduced ability to perform
motor tasks. The experimenters then surgically destroy a part of the monkeys' brains (their basal ganglia) to see if the monkeys would
improve.

Philip A. Starr
Possibly 40 or 49 Alma St. (needs confirmation!!)
San Francisco, CA 94117

Campus Info:
Professor Philip Starr
Box 0112 , 505 Parnassus Ave, Moffitt 779
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA. 94143

Private Practice Address:
Philip A. Starr, MD
400 Parnassus Ave., 8th Floor
San Francisco, CA. 94143- 0350
Email: starrp@neurosurg.ucsf.edu
Private Practice Phone: 415-353-7500
Campus phone: 415-353-3489
Fax: 415-353-3459

Cat experiments conducted by Kenneth D. Miller

Title: Studies of Cortical and Lateral Geniculate Response Properties and Circuitry Using Simultaneous Many-Cellular Recording.

Purpose: “To understand the functional organization of the visual cortex and more generally of the cerebral cortex…Simultaneous
observation of multiple cells allows inference of intracellular relationships and circuitry not possible through observations of single
cells.”

Procedures: The cats are anesthetized, placed in a restraining device and hung by the lower spine with a wire. Muscles around the lower
spine are cut away where the wire enters the body. This is to minimize breathing movements while recording brain activity. The scalp is
cut open, an opening made on the skull and recording devices inserted. Then the cat is paralyzed with a neuromuscular blocking drug, which
makes it essentially impossible to determine whether the cat is in pain or not. Furthermore, the lower the anesthetics used, the better
the brain electrical recordings will be. To ensure absolutely no eye movement, the eyeballs are glued to metal pads that are attached to
posts. For the glue to work, the outermost layer of the eyeball is removed. The cat’s brain is further cut open to expose the “visual
cortex and subcortical structures (including lateral geniculate nucleus, superior colliculus, and optic nerves, tracts, and radiations)”
into which electrodes would be inserted.

Kenneth D. Miller
2153 Hayes St.
San Francisco, CA 94117
415-751-6131

Campus Info:
Professor Ken Miller
Box 0444
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA. 94143
Emai: ken@neurotheory.columbia.edu

Experiments conducted by Michael P. Stryker

Title 1: The Role of Sleep in Developmental Plasticity
Title 2: Development and Plasticity of the Visual System

(Stryker has been torturing kittens, ferrets and other animals since 1977. No useful information has ever been obtained from his work
that would help humans by depriving animals of sight and sleep, then cutting their brains open to look at so-called “re-wiring." The
experimenters were only able to brag of one conclusion from their work: sleep and sight deprivation affects brain development – which
anyone with common sense should already know.)

Michael P. Stryker
3 Pine Ct.
Kentfield, CA
415-488-5299

Campus Info:
Professor Michael Stryker
Box 0444 , 513 Parnassus Ave. HSE 802
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA. 94143
Email: stryker@phy.ucsf.edu
Campus phone: 415-476-5443
Fax: 415-502-4848

Experiments conducted by Russell L. Snyder

Title: Plasticity in the Auditory Nervous System

Purpose: To “examine physiological and anatomical consequences” of destroying parts of the cats’ spiral ganglion (hearing nerves).

Procedures: In a nutshell, the cats’ (and guinea pigs’) heads are cut open and their brains mapped invasively by removing parts of the
brain and by destroying nerves. All subjects are eventually euthanized.

Russell L. Snyder
4125 Sequoia DR.
Oakley, CA 94561
(925) 625-0668

Campus Info: Professor Russell Snyder
Box 0526 , 533 Parnassus Ave, UC Hall U490j
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA. 94143
Email: rsnyder@ohns.ucsf.edu
Campus phone: 415-514-3848
Fax: 415-476-2169

Experiments conducted by Patricia A. Leake

Title: Development and Connections of the Cochlear Spiral Ganglion.

Purpose: To “improve our understanding of…normal development of the auditory system and will help to define the critical and sensitive
periods of postnatal maturation in mammals."

Procedures: Kittens removed via Caesarian sections from their mothers at 58 days of gestation are injected with tracers immediately or
1-3 days later. Kittens removed via C-sections at 60 days of gestation have part of their hearing nerves destroyed using laser or
micropipette, and then are killed at 12 weeks in terminal procedures described below. The mothers will be “retired" as breeders and/or
used in subsequent terminal experiments.

One-day to one-month-old kittens are deafened by 16-25 daily injections of the antibiotic neomycin sulfate. The deafened kittens will be
studied at various ages up to 12 months to “evaluate the effect on the central projections of the auditory nerve." They will undergo
terminal surgery when both ears will be cut open and tracers injected into the inner ears. They are maintained under “light anesthesia”
with sodium pentobarbital for another 4-10 hours to allow the tracer to work through the nerves. After another round of injections into
the inner ears, they are euthanized.

Another group of deafened kittens, 6-7 weeks old, will receive a cochlear prosthetic device implant for later chronic electrical
stimulation. To prevent the kittens from scratching and damaging their implants, their hind feet are declawed. Chronic electrical
stimulation is administered 4 hours per day, 5 days per week for 12-45 weeks. They will then undergo terminal surgery. The outer part of
their brains will be suctioned away to expose the inside. Electrical responses to stimulation are then recorded within the brain
continuously for a period of 2-3 days, with a team of experimenters working in shifts around the clock. Finally, a tracer is injected and
they are euthanized

Patricia A. Leake
124 Wilshire Ave.
Daly City, Ca 94015
650-992-4410

Campus Info: Professor Patricia Leake
Box 0526 , 533 Parnassus Ave, UC Hall 490
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA. 94143
Email: pleake@ohns.ucsf.edu
Campus Phone: 415-476-5958
Campus Phone 2: 415-476-2511
Fax: 415-476-2169

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