Animal use alternatives in research and testing: Obligation and opportunity

Lab Animal

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 28-33

  Stokes, William S ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

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