"Animal Technician Week 2024": HTML5 Crossword

Across

6. Term for a disease transmitted from animals to humans (8)
8. Unusual anatomic feature of a hamster that is useful in certain branches of research (10)
11. Policy institutions have to protect an individual reporting instance of animal abuse or neglect (13)
13. Procedure where a small tube is inserted into a body cavity duct or vessel (11)
16. Under the skin (12)
17. Contents in rabbit urine that causes pigmentation (8)
19. Designing an experiment so that stress or pain of an animal is minimized (10)
20. Equipment that uses high-temperature steam under pressure to kill microorganisms (9)

Down

1. A condition--often caused by routine laboratory or even husbandry procedures--which reduces the effectiveness of the immune response (6)
2. Regulations that apply to nonclinical studies conducted to collect data for submission to the Food and Drug Administration (4)
3. Must be submitted to the IACUC before animal work is conducted on a research study (8)
4. Required to inspect animal facilities and oversee the animal research program (shortly) (5)
5. Reddish material in the tears of mice and rats (9)
7. Disease agent carried often asymptomatically in macaque species that is usually asymptomatic in humans (12)
9. Measure of the amount of moisture in the air (8)
10. Rectangular open box cage used to house smaller species (7)
12. Most important immediate step following a primate bite or scratch (5)
14. Type of air pressure used in rooms where agent or materials are meant to be isolated (8)
15. Tuberculin for a TB test is administered by _________ injection (11)
18. That which determines the shelf-life of primate and guinea pig feed (8)