Computer-based alternatives to using animals in teaching physiology and pharmacology to undergraduate students

Alternatives to Laboratory Animals

Volumn 32, Issue SUPPL. 1B, 2004, Pages 517-520

  Dewhurst, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alternatives; Computer simulations; Undergraduate pharmacology teaching

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TESTING ALTERNATIVE; ANIMAL USE; COLLEGE STUDENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; COST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEACHING; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 3042562286     PISSN: 02611929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/026119290403201s83     Document Type: Conference Paper

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