Dr. Augusto Vitale

Italian National Institute of Health, Italy

Email: augusto.vitale@iss.it

Qualifations

1988 Ph.D., University of Aberdeen

Publications (Selected)

1. Puopolo M, Vitale A, Laviola G (editors) (2004).Biostatistical and ethological approaches for the promotion of welfare of laboratory animals and quality of experimental data.Roma, Ann Ist Super Sanità.
2. Vitale A and Manciocco A (2004).Environmental enrichment techniques in non-human primates.The case of Callitrichids. In: Puopolo M, Vitale A, Laviola G (eds), Biostatistical and ethological approaches for the promotion of welfare of laboratory animals and quality of experimental data.Roma, Ann Ist Super Sanità, 40(2):181-186.
3. Vitale A and Licata E (2004).Refinement techniques in experimental protocols involving Callitrichids. In: Puopolo M, Vitale A, Laviola G (eds), Biostatistical and ethological approaches for the promotion of welfare of laboratory animals and quality of experimental data.Ann Ist Super Sanità, 40(2):237-240.
4. Vitale A (2004).Ethological aspects of environmental enrichment for New World monkeys. In: Bekoff M (ed), Encyclopedia of animal behavior. Boulder, Colorado, Greenwood Publ. Pp 1120-1122
5. Vitale A (2004). Helpers in common marmosets. In: Bekoff M (ed), Encyclopedia of animal behavior. Boulder, Colorado, Greenwood Publ. Pp 186-187
6. Pollo S, Vitale A, Gayle V and Zucco F (2004). The “3Rs” Model and the concept of alternatives
7. in animal research: A questionnaire survey. Lay Animal Europe, 33(7): 47-53
8. Vitale A e Laviola G (a cura di) (2004). Sperimentazione animale secondo il decreto legislativo n.116/1992: stato di applicazione e opinioni a confronto. Roma, Rapporti ISTISAN 01/2
9. Vitale A, Cirulli F, Capone F, Alleva E (2004).Animal welfare issues under laboratory constraints: an ethological perspective. In: Kaliste E (ed), The welfare of laboratory animals.Dordrecht, Kluwer. Pp 315-338
10. Buchanan-Smith HM, Rennie AE, Vitale A, Pollo S, Prescott MJ and Morton DB (2005). Harmonising the definition of refinement. Animal Welfare, 14: 379-384
11. Alleva E, Vitale A (2006).The laboratory, the farm, the house: Ethical implications in human/non-human relationships. In: Science and society new ethical interactions.Milano, Fondazione Carlo Erba. Pp 55-72
12. Vitale A e Alleva E (2007). Altruism in non-human animals and human animals. Journal of Anthropological Sciences, 85:237-239
13. Vitale A, Laviola G, Manciocco A, Adriani A (eds.) (2007). Human and non-human animals interaction: contextual, normative and applicative aspects. Rapporti ISTISAN,7, Pp 101
14. Venerosi A, Vitale A (2007). Application of the “3Rs” model in biomedical experimentation: the case of the neurobehavioural toxicity effects after developmental exposure to antiretroviral agents. Rapporti ISTISAN, 7:6-16
15. Vitale A, Manciocco A (2007). Ethological indicatore of the well-being of non-human primates. Rapporti ISTISAN, 7:26-34
16. Vitale A, Alleva E (2007). Konrad Lorenz e l’etologia contemporanea. In: Konrad Lorenz cent’anni dopo (Celentano M e Stanzione M, eds). Rubbettino Editore. Pp 85-95
17. Vitale A, Pollo S (2007). Ethics and animal protection. Biomedicine and animals. In Enciclopedia of Human-animal relationships (Bekoff M, ed). Greenwood Press. Pp 714-718
18. Calzà L, Vitale A (2007). Diritti degli animali e sperimentazione: dalla parte del laboratorio. In: Diritto e nuove tecnologie (Faralli C e Finocchiaro G, eds). Gedit Edizioni. 261-281
19. Manciocco A, Chiarotti F, Vitale A, Calamandrei G, Laviola G, Alleva E (2008). The application of Russell and Burch 3R principle in rodent models of neurodegenerative disease: The case of Parkinson's disease. Neuroscience& Biobehavioural Review 33:18.32