The use of nutrition to implement refinement in animal bioassays

Lab Animal

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 29-34

  Hart, Ronald W ^a,b   Hass, Bruce S ^a,c   Turturro, Angelo ^a,b   Lewis, Sherry M ^a,d  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR TOXICOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b Div of Biometry and Risk Assessment

^c Division of Nutritional Toxicology

^d Bionetics Corporation   (United States)

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