The use of animals in live-tissue trauma training and military medical research

Lab Animal

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 319-322

  Martinic, Gary ^a  

^a WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TESTING ALTERNATIVE; BLEEDING; EDUCATION; ETHICS; GOAT; METHODOLOGY; MILITARY MEDICINE; REVIEW; STANDARD; SWINE; TRAUMATOLOGY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION; ANIMAL USE ALTERNATIVES; ANIMALS; GOATS; HEMORRHAGE; MILITARY MEDICINE; SWINE; TRAUMATOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; CAPRA HIRCUS; SUIDAE;

EID: 84857848609     PISSN: 00937355     EISSN: 15484475     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/laban1011-319     Document Type: Review

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