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The Use of Non-human Animals in Research: A Guide for Scientists

The Use of Non-human Animals in Research: A Guide for Scientists ATLA 32, 119–120, 2004 119 Comment The Use of Non-human Animals in Research: A Guide for Scientists W.M.S. Russell Department of Sociology, University of Reading, Whiteknights, P.O. Box 218, Reading RG6 6AA, UK “It is a truism, though one that cannot too often be disastrous effects on experimental results of lack repeated, that we owe to animal experimentation of refinement in these respects (3). There is also many if not most of the benefits of modern medicine no mention of the crucially important subject of and countless advances in fundamental scientific humane endpoints (4). knowledge”. This statement, from the first page of Transgenic techniques can sometimes be refine- the 1959 book on humane experimental technique ments. “In transgenic mice with overproduction of by the late Rex Burch and myself (1), is the subject the growth hormone, the resulting kidney and liver of the first part of this new Royal Society booklet (2). defects can be studied at a stage before the mouse It gives an excellent account of the achievements need suffer from them, a great improvement over of animal experimentation in the past, with a num- surgical methods of producing these defects” (5). ber of carefully described examples. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Alternatives to Laboratory Animals SAGE

The Use of Non-human Animals in Research: A Guide for Scientists

Russell, W.M.S.
Alternatives to Laboratory Animals , Volume 32 (2): 2 – Jun 1, 2004
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© 2004 Fund for the Replacement of Animals in Medical Experiments
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ATLA 32, 119–120, 2004 119 Comment The Use of Non-human Animals in Research: A Guide for Scientists W.M.S. Russell Department of Sociology, University of Reading, Whiteknights, P.O. Box 218, Reading RG6 6AA, UK “It is a truism, though one that cannot too often be disastrous effects on experimental results of lack repeated, that we owe to animal experimentation of refinement in these respects (3). There is also many if not most of the benefits of modern medicine no mention of the crucially important subject of and countless advances in fundamental scientific humane endpoints (4). knowledge”. This statement, from the first page of Transgenic techniques can sometimes be refine- the 1959 book on humane experimental technique ments. “In transgenic mice with overproduction of by the late Rex Burch and myself (1), is the subject the growth hormone, the resulting kidney and liver of the first part of this new Royal Society booklet (2). defects can be studied at a stage before the mouse It gives an excellent account of the achievements need suffer from them, a great improvement over of animal experimentation in the past, with a num- surgical methods of producing these defects” (5). ber of carefully described examples.

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