Animal testing: Is it worth it?

British Medical Journal

Volumn 334, Issue 7586, 2007, Pages 182-184

  Watts, Geoff ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CARE; ANIMAL TESTING REPLACEMENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MICRODOSIMETRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY;

ANIMAL TESTING ALTERNATIVES; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; MODELS, ANIMAL;

EID: 33846682317     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Short Survey

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