University Daily Kansan, April 13, 1984
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CAMPUS AND AREA
Advances said to aid animals also Med Center vet supports research
By DAVID SWAFFORD Staff Reporter
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — The door to the fifth floor of Wahl Hall East at the University of Kansas Medical Center has a sign bolted on it that reads, "No Admittance. Authorized . Personnel Only."
Beyond the door are experimental laboratory rats, mice, hamsters, guinea pigs, rabbits, cats, dogs and monkeys.
"Some of the more radical humane societies say that animals shouldn't be used for experiments at all," said C.C. Templeman, director of the Med Center's animal care unit. "They would rather die from diseases that might be cured, rather than use animals in experiments.
"OF COURSE, I disagree with them. I feel it's appropriate to use animals in research, and I think the majority of the public feels that way, too. The research not only benefits mankind, but it also benefits animals."
He said that the vaccine for polio, the vaccine for measles and the insulin vaccine is made of corn.
using experimental laboratory animals.
Not only can manufactured insulin be given to diabetic humans, he said, but it is also used in cancer patients.
Templeman, who earned his degree in veterinary medicine at Iowa State University and has been the veterinarian at the Med Center's animal care unit for the past seven years, said a variety of experiments were used, including one involving the transplantation of bone marrow that uses rats.
"The procedure and the handling of cells is learned in animals before performing it on humans," he said. "We're the only hospital in Kansas City that does bone marrow transplantation. I think we're one of the leaders in the country, too."
TEMPLEMAN SAID that in Wyandotte County, where the Med Center is located, 6,600 stray dogs were picked up and destroyed last year by animal control officers.
"Those dogs were wasted," he said. "Here we're much more humane in the way we handle the animals. Everybody here is concerned about the animals. 1
feel we have an excellent research team."
He said the unit spent about $150,000 a year buying and caring for experimental animals. Now, 114 researchers work at the Med Center.
They are given grants for their research. The federal government provides much of the research financing.
AND IF RESEARCHERS working under NIH research violate any of its code of ethics, the NIH will withdraw the grants.
Templeman said that the animal care unit had its own set of regulations concerning how the animals were handled. He said that if researchers wished to imitations, those researchers would no longer work in the animal care unit.
"Unless an animal is properly cared
said, 'he's not good research
material'."
The animal unit at the Med Center, Templeman said, was well supported. He said both D. Kay Clawson, executive vice chancellor of the Med Center, and David Waxman, former executive vice chancellor, were strong supporters.
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